Criticizing Trump
09/22/2018
I have no problem with criticizing Trump, or any president for that matter. But in my 25 years of observing politics, I've witnessed the growth of what might be called a type of mass-hysteria on the left side of the political divide.
For example: with George W. Bush, it seemed to already have been decided that he was an archvillain even before he took office. The interesting thing was that just like with Trump today, lies were spread about him.
The biggest of course, was being that he “lied” to get us into Iraq. Despite the exoneration of both him (faulty intelligence that all nations received), and Bill Clinton, with not taking Osama bin-Ladin when offered by Saudi Arabia (he wasn’t a big threat at the time), by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report, the left still insists he lied, truth be damned.
Then there was the thing about Bush being a “moron,” which is actually a reflection of the left’s typical “holier-then-thou” attitude. Funny thing though when Kerry was running against Bush. Since Kerry’s Yale records were sealed, a person named Steve Sailer conducted and published an evaluation of Bush’s and Kerry’s respective I.Q.s, basing it on their military aptitude tests.
As expected, Kerry did well coming out in the 91st percentile. Bush on the other hand, came out in the 95th percentile, only 3 points below a genius level I.Q. The New York Times published the research, in part scoffing at it, and the leftists I mentioned this to, refuse to accept the results. But the results still stand, plain as day, for all to see.
That reflects another issue with Modern Democrats. It isn’t that they don’t know certain facts, they consciously don’t want to know. I call this “willful ignorance” and it’s rampant.
Orwell wrote about this and other issues that we see with Modern Democrats, especially the “progressive” sorts, some 70 years ago. If one reads his political essays, you find out that 1984 wasn’t about Donald Trump, it was about Hillary Clinton.
Of course Orwell found fault with conservatives too, but in one of his essays he wrote that in the future (which is now), the greatest threat to liberty will be the intellectuals, and that’s exactly what is happening.
“The most intelligent people seem capable of holding schizophrenic beliefs, or disregarding plain facts, of evading serious questions with debating-society repartees, or swallowing baseless rumours and of looking on indifferently while history is falsified.” – George Orwell
posted on FB, "Buzz" Conway
I have no problem with criticizing Trump, or any president for that matter. But in my 25 years of observing politics, I've witnessed the growth of what might be called a type of mass-hysteria on the left side of the political divide.
For example: with George W. Bush, it seemed to already have been decided that he was an archvillain even before he took office. The interesting thing was that just like with Trump today, lies were spread about him.
The biggest of course, was being that he “lied” to get us into Iraq. Despite the exoneration of both him (faulty intelligence that all nations received), and Bill Clinton, with not taking Osama bin-Ladin when offered by Saudi Arabia (he wasn’t a big threat at the time), by the bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report, the left still insists he lied, truth be damned.
Then there was the thing about Bush being a “moron,” which is actually a reflection of the left’s typical “holier-then-thou” attitude. Funny thing though when Kerry was running against Bush. Since Kerry’s Yale records were sealed, a person named Steve Sailer conducted and published an evaluation of Bush’s and Kerry’s respective I.Q.s, basing it on their military aptitude tests.
As expected, Kerry did well coming out in the 91st percentile. Bush on the other hand, came out in the 95th percentile, only 3 points below a genius level I.Q. The New York Times published the research, in part scoffing at it, and the leftists I mentioned this to, refuse to accept the results. But the results still stand, plain as day, for all to see.
That reflects another issue with Modern Democrats. It isn’t that they don’t know certain facts, they consciously don’t want to know. I call this “willful ignorance” and it’s rampant.
Orwell wrote about this and other issues that we see with Modern Democrats, especially the “progressive” sorts, some 70 years ago. If one reads his political essays, you find out that 1984 wasn’t about Donald Trump, it was about Hillary Clinton.
Of course Orwell found fault with conservatives too, but in one of his essays he wrote that in the future (which is now), the greatest threat to liberty will be the intellectuals, and that’s exactly what is happening.
“The most intelligent people seem capable of holding schizophrenic beliefs, or disregarding plain facts, of evading serious questions with debating-society repartees, or swallowing baseless rumours and of looking on indifferently while history is falsified.” – George Orwell
posted on FB, "Buzz" Conway