On 11/13/2020 1:20 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
On 13 Oct 2020, at 02:23, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
The character of Joe Biden or Kamala is never in question?
Not concerning their acceptance of the rule of law and democracy. The
election was not between left and right, but between democracy and
tyranny.
Since Trump has been acquitted by the senate, he behaves already like
a dictator. Why the republican accept this is a bit of a mystery, but
I suspect bullying or blackmailing in the background (it looks more
and more like what happened in Brussels …).
I have to say that the victory of Biden is a big relief for me, and I
really want to congratulate the Americans for those elections, very
well done, with a big participation, despite covid-19.
But, as expected (if only because Trump warned us in advance), to win
the election will not make Trump and the Trumpists disappear…. (I have
explained (on YouTube, right after Barr lied on the Mueller Report)
that it should be much more easy to put Trump (and Barr, Pompeo, …)
out of office before the election than after, especially if Trump lost
them (!).
We tried to put him out before the election. I don't know why think it
would have been easier. The Senate voted on straight party lines not to
convict on his impeachment. Every Republican politician is afraid, not
so much of Trump, as of Trump's voters. In every district a large
majority of the Repbublican voters have supported Trump in 2016 and
2108. So a Republican who doesn't at least pretend to support Trump has
to estimate that he can get a big fraction of Democrats in his district
to vote for him, because he's going to lose those Trump supporters.
The fact that about 72 millions of people voted for someone not
showing his taxes is a sort of mystery to me. I suspect a lack of
education … in logic. (Well, I have independent reason to suspect a
quasi international problem of lack of education investment...).
Yes, it is those disaffected voters who voted for Trump */because/* he
was a disrupter, a rule breaker, and he blamed the same people they did
for their problems: immigrants, gays, coastal elites, the well educated,
Muslims, NATO, etc. He validated their attitude that learning and
expertise are worthless and their ignorance is just a good as your
knowledge. Like any autocrat, his support was fueled by fear and
hatred of /the other/ and grievances he promised to redress.
I am probably more republican than democrat, but I prefer an honest
opponent than a dishonest ally.
BTW, I consider Trump to belong to the extreme-left (you need this to
show such deference toward Putin, Xi, Kim-Young-Un. It is revealing to
see the name of the foreigners who congratulated Biden (Europa, UK,
Australia, Israel) and those who did not (the dictatorships).
The left is for strong government regulation, or even ownership, of the
means of production, to the benefit of the worker. The right is for
complete lack of regulation so that the most powerful corporations can
form monopolies and government's role is only to defend their rights of
ownership. So I'd say Trump is on the right. But he's not really
ideological. He used to register as a Democrat and was pro-choice on
abortion. So his only real interest is Donald Trump.
Trump deserves jail, and he knows it well, that is why he does not
concede, he has nothing to lose… Trump is the poorest man on the
planet (as Ivanka Trump explained once…). He is also the most dishonest.
Biden and Harris have made 0 faults in their campaign (except some
terrible lapsus by Biden, lol).
All the best,
Bruno
Is there not a populist, nativist faction rising in Belgium?
Brent
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