08-12-2020, 07:20 AM
(08-12-2020, 12:08 AM)Von Cichlid Wrote: It was logical in the sense that he was a true outsider. He was not an establishment candidate and the odds were stacked against him from the outset. Liberal media belly laughed at the suggestion he might be president and his own party did not take him seriously at all. Yet he was still in the running until the very end and he wound up being, by far, the most improbable candidate to ever go all the way.
But that is the thing that gets me; he wasn't a true outsider. He has a long history of being a major political donor and traveling in circles with these major establishment politicians. The whole "outsider" narrative was false on its face because of this. In fact, he represented what is wrong with establishment politicians in that he had influence because he was wealthy and therefore was just a further perpetuation of the plutocracy that subverts out democratic republic.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR