Trump on undocumented immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals.'

[*Nately120*]

(06-19-2018, 04:27 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: That's the thing that baffles me, and I know this is going in a completely different direction, but some models in political science point to republics operating in a cyclical nature. Republic/democracy, oligarchy (which we are), and then a populist authoritarian. We forget how young our country really is, so we don't really see the cycle within our borders. Anyway, the part that I find baffling is that the corrective force of a populist authoritarian from an oligarchy is something that it seems like some people wanted, but they were fooled because they just put another elite in office! They made the oligarchy/plutocracy even worse!

Sorry, I'm done ranting about this in this thread.

Ha, I actually deleted that post because I thought it seemed a bit too pessimistic even for me.