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Actors playing Political Characters

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RainbowUnicorn Offline
(Jun 25, 2017 09:20 PM)C C Wrote:
(Jun 25, 2017 06:40 PM)RainbowUnicorn Wrote: moral equity ambiguity. i am pondering Barak sitting in the audience watching some type of Roman or Greek tradgedy that has the characters dressed as modern politicians himself included. From my general malaise observation it would seem the Republicans would declare such a performance as inciting terrorism while the Democracts would define it as theatrical circumspect fable presentation. I can percieve Barak being asked to step on stage & take a bow at the end as being well inside the social intellect of the event.

However i am unable to percieve the same level of intellectual comprehension and Free Speech being accepted by the Republicans. it leaves me pondering if this a Trend or change in culture that we are observing ?


Remember, though, that the anti-establishment populist and alt-right supporters of Trump aren't traditional GOP (some of them are former independents and democrats). For instance, when a couple of those protesters stormed the Julius Caesar play back on June 16 to object to a slain Caesar deliberately made to resemble Trump, Ben Shapiro tweeted afterwards: "This is total, complete horse crap. She [Laura Loomer] invaded a public performance to obstruct it. She has no right to the stage."

Conventional conservatives disdain protesting and disruption of events (like theatrical plays and campus speeches), long deeming such public behavior as part of what distinguishes them from historic elements of their rivals on the Left (as well as the "newcomers" they're now sharing turf with in the GOP): "While those of us who are principled conservatives understand the difference between the limited government principles of freedom that distinguish conservatism from the populist nationalist tribalism of the Alt-Right, the leftists that make up the media are more than happy to blur the distinction between the two in order to create the impression in the minds of low-information voters that conservatives no longer support free speech." That's from a traditionalist GOP response to the Julius Caesar incident found here: 5 Reasons Storming Stages Is Idiotic. Another excerpt:

Furthermore, to pretend that the Left is winning because they “break windows, hurl eggs, shoot us, shout us down” is ridiculous. They’re losing because of all of this. The Left’s insanity drove the Right to victory across the country. Trump isn’t ascendant because he has no boundaries — he’s ascendant because an anti-Left backlash has been rising across America for nearly a decade. He’s also ascendant not because he started shutting down Democratic rallies, but because he defended his own right to have his rallies. When John asks for a plan, here’s one: speak on college campuses, speak for free speech, shame the Left routinely, force them to acknowledge their own tyranny. Don’t participate in tyranny. This is a winning plan. Even leftists like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama have been forced to disown the radical Left snowflakes on campus. The common refrain from events like the political riots in Berkeley, Middlebury et al. in shutting down speakers that drew the ire of the Left is: This is why Trump won. Such examples of the Left's attack on free speech only helps Trump and increases his chances of re-election in 2020. So why would the Right want to embrace a tactic that is causing the Left to lose?

To further emphasize the distinction between purely Trump-only supporters and the traditional GOP electorate, take the 6th Congressional District in Georgia where Republican Karen Handel recently defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff. That area is a hotbed of conventional Republicans who at best feel indifferent about Trump today (and were outright hostile to him back during the GOP presidential candidate races of 2015 to 2016). Contrary to the POTUS declaring Handel's victory to be an endorsement of his policies / approach, Handel actually won by staying away from Trump and his anti-establishment followers:    

[Karen] Handel’s victory, however, revealed as much about Trump’s lingering problems among Republicans as it did the challenges facing Democrats. In a ruby-red district that her Republican predecessor won in November by 23 points, Handel struggled with Trump’s looming presence over the race. She won not with an embrace of the president but by barely mentioning his name. Handel, who will be the first Republican woman elected to Congress from Georgia, repeatedly ducked opportunities to echo Trump’s populist roar and instead presented a classic Republican case to voters, all while deflecting the barrage of questions about Trump’s latest tweets or his handling of investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. The Republican unease evident in the district could replay across the country next year, when both major parties are bracing for a bruising season of midterm elections at an uncertain national moment. (LINK)

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where the Tea Party Failed Trump has succeeded.
why ?
Palin talked up a war with russia while trump talked up special relationships with russia.
Palin used the Republican conservative stallwarts to warm up her crowds
Trump used them to point out his indifference to the establishment

It has occured to me that there is likely quite a number of Trump voters who voted Trump out of pure intention to cause anarchy & Chaos.

strangley enough... why did trump continue to electioneer after his victory ?
probably because he has been told that he wont get a second term unles he conceedes to working class vote buying in some policy format.

consideration must be given to the decades of priming toward the radical republican independant who is very anti-establishment politics.
The industry in the US which this group of people sustain is massive.
The Socially conservative Mountain Man that soo many look to emulate in the conservative rural heartlands.

no doubt the next question will be asked "What did Trump do for Cowboys?"

i get your point about the Republican conservative.
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