Over twenty years ago many people saw what the Rep Party had become, and yet some people still have a problem believing it.
“I’ve known Bob Rumson for years, and I’ve been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn’t get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob’s problem isn’t that he doesn’t get it. Bob’s problem is that he can’t sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.”
and if you think that’s over the top, you just don’t get it.
without the brownshirts and the death camps, it is still possible for a faction to take over a country by making the people afraid and telling them whom to blame.
and denying funding to any politician who would oppose their takeover, of, say, the normal functions of government.
I was doing some reading and discovered that technology improvements have reduced the number of man hour per ton of steel made in the us from 10.9 to 1.9 from 1980 to 2014. So if you just assume constant production the steel industry should employ 1/5 the folks it employed in 1980 to produce the same amount of steel. So at least for some areas in former steel country one should blame new technology not foreign competition for the jobs famine. (also the amount of steel per $ of gdp has fallen greatly over the same period )
Over twenty years ago many people saw what the Rep Party had become, and yet some people still have a problem believing it.
“I’ve known Bob Rumson for years, and I’ve been operating under the assumption that the reason Bob devotes so much time and energy to shouting at the rain was that he simply didn’t get it. Well, I was wrong. Bob’s problem isn’t that he doesn’t get it. Bob’s problem is that he can’t sell it! We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112346/quotes
It worked for Hitler.
and if you think that’s over the top, you just don’t get it.
without the brownshirts and the death camps, it is still possible for a faction to take over a country by making the people afraid and telling them whom to blame.
and denying funding to any politician who would oppose their takeover, of, say, the normal functions of government.
From Bev on East European bloc voters:
Change question from Trump to:
“Is Clinton’s bent toward regime change in Russia motivated to woo voters inside 8 Mile Detroit or Toledo?”
Deeper, “does US CIA involvement in bloody coups in the former Warsaw bloc reassure ethnic voters inside 8 mile?”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/22/wikileaks_keep_fighting_the_man_by_er_publishing_the_personal_details_of_ordinary_citizens/
I’m not a donor, but if you are, maybe you want to check your accounts.
I was doing some reading and discovered that technology improvements have reduced the number of man hour per ton of steel made in the us from 10.9 to 1.9 from 1980 to 2014. So if you just assume constant production the steel industry should employ 1/5 the folks it employed in 1980 to produce the same amount of steel. So at least for some areas in former steel country one should blame new technology not foreign competition for the jobs famine. (also the amount of steel per $ of gdp has fallen greatly over the same period )