Thinking about Trump making drastic cuts in Education,

[MineralMan]

Last edited Sun Apr 2, 2017, 08:02 PM - Edit history (1)

I'm reminded that one of the first tasks of most tyrants is to rid themselves of intellectuals and the "intelligentsia." We may be seeing the beginnings of that effort right now. It's troubling, to say the least.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He cant do jack shit unless he has many people supporting

his acts which in every case so far have been anti American and pro russian.

More of us than them but when Russian agents on the ground are able to flip votes and plant doubt, they win.

I am disgusted by the people here who support this prick.

When someone says there is a liberal elite? suspect that persons motives

[Igel]

3. And again ...

The evidence that we have, apart from claims "there were agents and therefore without evidence they must be responsible for torrent of fake news," is that the fake news had a trivial effect. Truly trivial.

What's left is the non-fake but not-important news about email servers and the echoing of RT and such (which, chronologically speaking, mostly echoed Trump). All of that reporting wasn't done by fake-news sites or catapulted by trolls. It was MSM, from Fox through MSNBC and Pacifica Radio and NPR. Bernie Sanders' people echoed the server business a lot, because it was in their interests.

We like scandal. And we feed our outrage based on what we find salacious and scandalous.

Now, keep in mind that the Russian goal, the first and main goal, was to undermine the political system, to sow distrust. Trump's election helped that. And the response to it is music to Putin's ears: It's best for him to let the system chew itself up and stay out of it. If he supported undermining Trump, the undermining would stop. But since he's quiet, no matter how much contempt he holds Trump in (and that's where the evidence is these days, and has been since last fall), the idea that Trump's in awe of Putin can stand unchallenged. And we like that. No, I don't have a solution. We've hoist ourselves on our own petard.

Remember, a good bit of agitprop just keeps on giving dividends.

[GWC58]

2. Well, one drastic cut he did

was putting Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary. Can it get anymore obvious than that?

[rug]

4. "intelligentsia"

[MineralMan]

5. Right you are...

Fixed it. Thanks.