Trump has made his repeated promise to deport 20,000,000 minorities and foreigners a central feature of his campaign. What does Trump intend to do with them? History provides the key. And what history? The history of Europe in the 1930s and 1940s, when another great power, seeking a cheap way to victimize a large part of its population to benefit the majority race, also started a program of mass "deportation" of minorities, in order to provide its majority race with more land, more money, more of everything, at the expense of the others. There was a word for this: lebensraum, or "living space," the notion that the majority race deserved what it craved so much that it justified any abuse of those considered to be lesser humans. Hitler proposed to "deport" Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and eventually all other non "Aryan" residents of the Third Reich. The Nazis soon discovered that deportation was impossible; it was too expensive for Germany, and oth...
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Are you sure there's really a significant difference?
Mr. Obama is conspicuously failing to mount any kind of challenge to the philosophy now dominating Washington discussion — a philosophy that says the poor must accept big cuts in Medicaid and food stamps; the middle class must accept big cuts in Medicare (actually a dismantling of the whole program); and corporations and the rich must accept big cuts in the taxes they have to pay. Shared sacrifice!
Who's the Republican?
I wish we'd done better than Obama, but the situation is what it is. If people can't see that he's vastly better as President than someone like Palin or Huckabee would be, then no, they don't deserve any better.
As you can tell, I am really angry about this. I am about ready to abandon this country and live my life out somewhere else, in the hope that the evil that is engulfing this country won't lead to too many more Iraq style aggressions around the world.