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malaise

(269,004 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 07:49 AM Feb 2016

What Trump is saying and what is facing America

Trump says the politicians cannot fix anything and he has contacts everywhere so he can fix it. He has also said that these are business friends. In other words Trump is offering America nothing more than FASCISM mingled with good old racism - racist corporate government - led by the oligarchy.

On the other hand, Bernie is offering SOCIAL DEMOCRACY or DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM.

The choices cannot be clearer

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What Trump is saying and what is facing America (Original Post) malaise Feb 2016 OP
Trump is indeed a classic fascist. Throw the majority group a bone, like protecting Social Security pampango Feb 2016 #1
Precisely - but otherReTHUGs are merely peddling malaise Feb 2016 #2

pampango

(24,692 posts)
1. Trump is indeed a classic fascist. Throw the majority group a bone, like protecting Social Security
Wed Feb 10, 2016, 08:25 AM
Feb 2016

and Medicare. Then go after the minority races, religions and ethnicities as the "them" who are causing all of our problems. The majority group is happy because they are protected ('he cares about us') and don't belong to the "them" groups being attacked - until it is too late.

Throw in a big helping of 'nationalism' - "make America great again" is consistent with Nazis blaming the others for their problems and Mussolini wanting the recreate the Roman empire of old - and you get some good ol' racism mixed with nativism.

Democratic socialism is the exact opposite of what Trump is peddling.

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