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monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

 
 
farmerman
 
  5  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 05:55 am
@oralloy,
Ive looked at Wnopes in many of these outrageous "Alternative fact" proposals that Congress is "consiering". It tiurns out they are blog centered bullshit for the most part. Those that arent blogocentric, are written by lazy producers fpr talk show patois.

Truth seems to be taking a long vacation. Id really like my America back. You know, the one where the President didnt scare people with neo-Hitlerian pronouncements voiced as if he even had a single clue of what hes even talking about.
What most of what Trump announces on his cell phone is clearly countered in the Constitution and no matter what happens with a gutless congress, I dont think thered be the necessary states that would consider the ratification of such idiotic "amendments"
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farmerman
 
  5  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:02 am
@oralloy,
Quote:
The lies of the Left are just as egregious as any lie that Mr. Trump has ever told
Thats really not a compelling argument ya know?. "Your demagoguery is just as bed as ours"

WOuld you buy a car with those features
"Were really Not as bad as you'd think"

Now that the Admin is actully admitting to pre-election contacts with the Russians, they are milling around now to just keep Pence clean. Im sure that Trump will come up with a tweet like he did when he dismissed his association with Obamian Birther lies.

But he said hed keep the trains running and qwould bring coal mining back

"
izzythepush
 
  3  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:05 am
@blatham,
Cock womble is the phrase of choice in the home of the wombles.

http://www.tidybag.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/wombles-names-bloomsbury.jpg

Strange that someone whose brown nosing supporters are so adverse to cheese would choose to look like a cheesy wotsit.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVt1MTwWEAAmJzu.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C2yfsI-XAAA8rMz.jpg
farmerman
 
  5  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:08 am
@blatham,
Just for historical note and to complete that thought, "DoucheNozzle 3Chins, was an Ojibwe warrior who flashed a full -Autumn-moon at president Andrew Jackson and was summarily outcast to a xerigrahic area as punishment for a "lesser species" to insult the worthy president .
layman
 
  -3  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:18 am
Even a hard-core commie like Hitchens would know that today's lefties are unscrupulous tards, eh?

Quote:
“In October, after more than 20 years at the left's house organ, the Nation, Hitchens announced his decision to leave the magazine. "

"I have come to realize that the magazine itself takes a side ... the amoral side ... in this argument and is becoming the voice and echo chamber of those who truly believe that John Ashcroft is a greater menace than Osama bin Laden," he said


Just replace Ashcroft with Trump and bin Laden with ISIS, ya know?
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izzythepush
 
  4  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:23 am
@farmerman,
There's an incredibly vast amount of insulting names for Trump, and growing all the time. Felonising each one won't leave much room for building walls or getting anything else through Congress. List also includes a few nicknames given by Trump himself and his supporters, but they can be counted on one hand.

70-Year-Old Toddler — Charles M. Blow and Samantha Bee
Agent Orange — Anonymous
Agent of Deranged Change
Alpha Molester
America's Black Mole — John Oliver
America's Burst Appendix — Samantha Bee
Amnesty Don — Joe Scarborough (after Trump said that he was "softening" his stance on illegal immigrants)
The Angry Cheeto
Angry Creamsicle — Stephen Colbert
Antichrist — (see Is Donald Trump the Antichrist?)
Art Deal and Mr. "Art of the Deal" — Donald Trump (taken from the title of his 1987 book, which he considers second only to the Bible)
A$$aulter-in-Chief — (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
A$$hole
Baby Fingers Trump — Michael R. Burch
Bag of Toxic Sludge
Baldfaced Crier
Barbecued Brutus
Barbarian at the Debate — Charles M. Blow
John Baron — Donald Trump (a pseudonym he used to brag about his exploits in the third person)
Barrel-Shouting Meatball Donald Trump — Chris Hardwick
The Big Cheeto
Big Donald — Marco Rubio (revised to Pig Donald by feminists)
The Bigoted Billionaire
The Bilious Billionaire
Birther Maniac
Blitzkrieg Bozo
Blowhard
Boiled Ham in a Wig — Jon Stewart
Boldfinger — Michael R. Burch
The Boychurian Candidate — Michael R. Burch (a pun on "The Manchurian Candidate")
Bratman
Bribe of Chucky
The Bouffant Buffoon
Bully Boy — Mike Rubio
Bumbledore
Bush Baby and Bush Baby Fingers — (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
The Bush Basher
The Bush Beater
Bushman — Michael R. Burch, after Trump bragged about groping bush to Billy Bush of Access Hollywood
Bushmaster
Butternut Squash — Trevor Noah
Cancer in a Wig — Trevor Noah
Captain Bluster
Captain Chaos — NBC News
Captain Crunch
Captain Outrageous — Michael R. Burch (a pun on Captain Courageous)
Captain Tantastic
The Chaos Candidate — Jeb Bush
Cheddar Boy
Cheez Doodle — Maureen Dowd
Cheez Whiz — John Oliver
Cheeto-Dusted Bloviator — jezebel.com
Cheeto Jesus — Rick Wilson
Chicken Donald — Martin O'Malley
Chimp-PAN-Zee
Cinnamon Hitler — Trevor Noah
Chickenhawk — Because Trump evaded serving in the Vietnam War, but portrays himself as a war hawk ("the most militaristic person on the planet")
Clown Prince of Politics
Comedy Entrapment — Jon Stewart
Commander-in-Grief
Conspiracy Commander-in-Chief
Con-Dike Gold Rush
Corn Husk Doll Cursed by a Witch Donald Trump — Chris Hardwick
The Cowardly Lyin'
Crybaby Prima Donald
Crybaby Trump — Jeff Kanew
Creep Throat — Seth Meyers
Daddy Warbucks
The Daft Draft Dodger
Dainty Donald
Damien Trump
Damn Turd Pol — anagram
Dangerous Donald — Hillary Clinton
Darth Hater
Darth taxeVader
DDT
The Debate Hater
Decomposing Jack O'Lantern — Jon Stewart
Deeply Disturbed Fuzzy Orange Goofball
The Definer — because according to The Donald, he defines other candidates, after which they quickly become political trivia questions
Dehydrated Orange Peel — Libby Inman
Demander-in-Chief — Michael R. Burch
Der Groepenfuehrer
Der Trumpkopf
Diaper Donald — Kevin Cavanaugh
Dickhead
Dickhead Dongle
Dingbat Donald
Dire Abby — Michael R. Burch (a pun on "Dear Abby" because Trump frequently tweets relationship advice to other people, but it's usually dire)
Dishonest Don
The Disruptor
The Dick Tater
DJT
Dodgy Donald — CrumblingSlowly
The Don
Don the Con
Don Dementia
The Donald — Ivana Trump (she first used the term in a 1989 Spy Magazine cover story)
Donald deGonad
Donald the Deadbeat — Dan Rather
Donald Dingbat
Donald Dipshit
Donald Dodo — as in the famously stupid dodo bird
The Donaldmeister
Donald Doom
The Donimator
Donald Douche and the Bags
Donald Drumpf — John Oliver
Donald Duck
Donald Duck Doo-Doo
Donald Ducknuke
Donald Dump
Donald Gonad
Donald the Menace
Donald Tax-Duck — John Joseph Ribovich
Don Goner
Donnie Darko
Donny — SNL's Church Lady (Dana Carvey); also his boyhood nickname
Donnybaby
Donnyboy
Donnybrook
Don of Orange
Draft Dodger — Don C. Reed
Dr. Strangelove
Duke Nuke 'Em
Dumbelldore
Dumbo — Grace Taylor
The Dumpster — Pun on Trumpster and the "Dump Trump" slogan)
Dump Tump — Grace Taylor
Ego Maniac
The Emperor with no Balls — Graffiti found on naked statues of Trump
The Emperor with no Clothes
Evil — Gloria Reed
Itty Bitty Ball Trump
Failed Mail-Order Meat Salesman — Ashley Feinberg, sticking a satiric fork in Trump Steaks
Fascist Carnival Barker — Martin O'Malley
Feral Shouting Meatball Donald Trump — Chris Hardwick
Field Marshall Trump
Fifth Avenue Freeze-Out (for trying to deny disabled vets the right to street vend on Fifth Avenue)
Financially Embattled Thousandaire — Gail Collins
Flat Top — Trump's boyhood nickname
Flipper
Flip Flopper
The Fomentor — Trevor Noah
The Fomentalist
Forrest Trump
Fragile Soul — Ted Cruz
Frisker-in-Chief
Frisky Frisker — (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
The Frontrunner
Fruit of the Loom — for oddly looming over Hillary Clinton at the second presidential debate
Fuckface von Clownstick — Jon Stewart
The Germinator (Trump hates to shake hands, fearing germs)
Genghis Cant — Michael R. Burch (because unlike Genghis Khan, the Donald can't rule the world, making his promises mere cant)
Gentle Donald — Ted Cruz
The Greatest Charlatan (of them all) — Brent Bozell
Golden Calf of Doom
God — Jay Leno
God-Emperor Trump
Godzilla, with Less Foreign Policy Experience — Stephen Colbert
Golden Wrecking Ball — Sarah Palin
The GOP's Unhinged Front-Runner — Robert Schlesinger, managing editor for opinion at U.S. News & World Report
Government Expander — Glen Beck
Gossamer-Skinned Bully — Graydon Carter
Grandpa Fucko — Kyle Bunch
The Grand Wizard of Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory — Murfster35 on DailyKos
Great Orange Hairball of Fear
The Great White Dope
The Great White Dope on a Self-Hanging Rope
Grope Dope
Groper-in-Chief — Nicholas Kristof (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
Halfwit Tweet Twit
Hair Apparent — pun on Heir Apparent
Hair Furor — pun on Herr Führer
Hair Hitler — pun on Herr Hitler
Head Twit
Herr Führer Trump
Herr Lugenpresse ― Dan Rather
Herr Trump
The Human Amplifier
The Human Combover
The Human Corncob — Erin L. Cody
The Human Bullhorn — Jim Newell, in Slate
Human-Toupee Hybrid — Stephen Colbert
Humble — Donald Trump's ironic choice when asked to provide a Secret Service codename
Humble Trump — a nickname given to Donald Trump by his son Eric Trump aka "Eric the Red"
Humble Cow Pie — because he's full of **** about being "humble"
Hurricane Donald ― Jeff Singer
The im-POTUS
The Inane Interjector
Immigrant-Bashing Carnival Barker — TIME Magazine, quoting presidential candidate Martin O'Malley
In-Vet-Irate Liar (for claiming to "support" vets while trying to sweep them off the streets)
The ISIS Candidate
Jack the Gripper — (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
John Baron and John Barron — Donald Trump pseudonyms
John Boehner's Tanning Partner in Crime — Michael R. Burch
John Miller — Donald Trump (a pseudonym he used to brag about his exploits in the third person)
Job Security (for Comedians) ― Jimmy Kimmel
Kelly's Zero (pun on [Megyn] Kelly's Heroes)
Killer Klown from Outer Space (the title of a "b" movie)
King of Debt
King Leer
King of the Oompa Loompas ― Justin Baragona
King of Sleaze
King of Spin
King of the Whoppers — USA Today, Christmas Day, 2015
King Trump
King Tut — Because his insults make billions of people go "Tut, tut, tut!"
King Twit
K-Mart Caesar
Lady Fingers Trump — Don C. Reed (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
Liberals' Best Friend (since the Trump administration will undoubtedly convert some conservatives into liberals)
Liberal Lip
Liberal Wannabe Strongman — David McIntosh
Little Donnie Sissypants
Little Dutch Boy
Long Dong Trump
Loosin' Donald — Ted Cruz
Lord Dampnut — anagram
Lord Voldemort — Rosie O'Donnell
Lurch
Machado Meltdown — Hillary Clinton
The Mad Shambler
Maladroit Savage Spiraling Out of Control — Charles M. Blow
Man-Baby — Jon Stewart
Mango Mussolini
Master Debater
Meathead — John Joseph Ribovich
MEGA-low-maniac
Mein Furor — Murfster35 on DailyKos
The Michelangelo of Ballyhoo — TIME by David Von Drehle in his cover article on Trump
Mogul — his Secret Service code name
Moneydiaper McStupid — Nick Musgrave
Mr. "Art of the Deal" — Donald Trump (taken from the title of his 1987 book)
Mr. Brexit — Donald Trump (perhaps because his political currency is about to be devalued?)
Mr. Chickenhawk — Because he's a coward who portrays himself as a war hawk
Mr. Firepants
Mr. Inappropriate
Mr. Boinker Oinker
Mr. Macho — Bernie Sanders (who perhaps gave the lily-livered draft dodger too much credit)
The Man of Steal (made in China) — after Hillary Clinton pointed out that Trump hotels have been built with illegally-imported Chinese steel
Mr. Meticulous — Trump's military academy nickname, given because he folded his underwear into neat squares
Mr. Wiggy Piggy — Because he's such a male chauvinist pig, and that hair!
Mussolini's Taint — Kyle Bunch
Narcissistic Human Airhorn — Chris Hardwick
The New Furor — Pun on Führer)
New York Dork
New York Pork Dork — Michael R. Burch (because Trump's companies have feasted on government subsidies and tax breaks)
No More Donald — Elizabeth Warren, in a tweet
The Only Plausible GOP Nominee — Bustle
Orange Anus — Rosie O'Donnell
Orangeback Gorilla — After trying to physically intimidate Hillary Clinton in the second presidential debate
Orange Bozo
Orange Caligula — Victoria
Orange Clown
Orange-Hued Self-Immolator
Orange Julius — A pun on the fruit drink chain (emphasis on fruit) and Julius Caesar
Orange Man
Orange Manatee — Stephen Colbert
The Orange Messiah
Orange Moron
Orange Omen of Doom
Orange Slug — Rosie O'Donnell
Orange Toilet Bowl Crud Brought to Life as a Genital-Grabbing Golem
Orange-Tufted Imbecile Intent on Armageddon
Orange-Tufted A$$hole
OranguTAN
Panda Hair — Elizabeth Harris Burch
Pander Hair — Elizabeth Harris Burch
Party Pooper
Peripatetic Political Showman — The Fiscal Times
Pile of Old Garbage Covered in Vodka Sauce — Trevor Noah
The Puerile Sophomoric Sniveler — Charles M. Blow
Pig Donald — a variation of Big Donald, coined by Marco Rubio then adapted by feminists
Political Gutterball — Michael R. Burch
Poor Donald — Hillary Clinton
Poster Child of American Decline — Robert Spencer
POTUS WRECKS — Michael R. Burch
The Predictable Endpoint of Republicanism — Charles M. Blow
Prima Donald
Puffed Up Daddy
Pussy Posse — (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
Putin's Gambit — Michael R. Burch
Putin's Pet
Queens' Reich — Trump hails from Queens NY, and sounds like the second coming of the Third Reich
Queer Orangutan
Rabble-Rousing Demagogue — John Cassidy in The New Yorker
Republican Rapture Inducer
Riptide of Regression ― Dan Rather
Rome Burning in Man Form — John Oliver
Ronald McDonald Trump-Bozo — Michael R. Burch
Ryan's Nope
Sack of Gilded Lunchmeat — Kyle Bunch
Screaming Carrot Demon — Samantha Bee
Scrooge Grinch McGrump — Michael R. Burch (first used Christmas Eve, 2015)
Scrooge McTrump
Serial Feeler — pun on "serial killer" (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
Sexual-Predator-in-Chief
The Shambling Sasquatch — (after Trump shambled and lurched around the stage in the second presidential debate, as lampooned by SNL)
Shitler
Silver Spoon Donald — Don C. Reed
The Silver Spoon Scion — Charles M. Blow
Snake Oil Salesman — Rosie O'Donnell
Sniffles — After the Donald sniffled like a cocaine addict during the second presidential debate
Sociopathic 70-Year-Old Toddler — Samantha Bee
The Sophomoric Sniveler — Charles M. Blow
The Spin King
The Spinster and The Sinister Spinster — Michael R. Burch
Stubby Baby Fingers Trump — Michael R. Burch
Stuporman — Since Trump's superpower is putting people to sleep and making them dream that he has magical superpowers
The Suicide Bummer
The Swamp Draining Lizard-Man-Toddler
The Talking Yam
Tan Dump Lord — anagram
The Tanning Bed Warning Label
Tangello Fruit Roll-Up Stretched Over Cat Litter Donald Trump — Chris Hardwick
Tangerine Jesus
Tangerine-Tinted Trash-Can Fire — Samantha Bee
Tangerine Tornado — SNL's Church Lady (Dana Carvey)
The Teflon Don — Michael R. Burch
Tepid Trumpeter
TelePrompTer Trump — Mark Sumner
Thin Skinned Orange Peel
Terroristic Man-Toddler — Charles M. Blow
Tic-Tac-Dough — Michael R. Burch
Tic-Tacky Trump
Tie-Coon (because his menswear line includes ties)
Timid Trumpster
The Tiny Fisted Emperor — Murfster35 on DailyKos
Tiny Hands Trump
Tricky Trump
Tricky Don Trump — After Tricky Dick Nixon
T-Rump
Trumpalump
Trumpamaniac
Trumparius — Nate Silver, from "The Age of Trumparius"
Trump Card
The Trumpet — Trump's boyhood nickname
Trump of Doom — Michael R. Burch (first used in a Facebook post on September 11, 2015)
Trumpdozer — TIME Magazine
Trumpelthinskin — Murfster35 on DailyKos
Trumplestiltskin
Trumpenstein — Murfster35 on DailyKos
Trumpinator — Soopermexican
Trumple-Doodle-Doo-Doo
Trumpledore
Trumpletoes
Trumpling Dildo
Trumpmeister
Trumpocalypse — Markos Moulitsas on Daily Kos
Trumpster
Trumptastrophe — Chris McKay
Trumpthechumps
Trump the Grump
The Tufted Taliban
Twat Twit — (see Donald Trump's War on Women)
Twitter-Drunk Donald — a Bush aide
Twitter Flitter
Twitter Spitter
The Twitter Terror — Michael R. Burch
Two-Bit Caesar — Bill Kristol
Two Pump Trump — Troy Ramos
UNA (Unrepentant Narcissistic Asshole) — Jon Stewart
The UNA Bomber
"The uniquely underqualified and overblown king of bragging and whining" — The New York Times
Unreality King
Vanilla Isis — Pun on Vanilla Ice
Venom-Drenched Regurgitated Slimy Orange Hairball
Vet Evictor — For staging a benefit for veterans after trying to sweep disabled vets from New York City streets for more than a decade
Voldemort ― Rosie O'Donnell
Walking Punchline
Walking Talking Human Combover — Michael R. Burch
Weak Donald — Trevor Noah
The Wedgie from West Palm — Kyle Bunch
Whiny Don
Whiny Donald
The White Kanye ― Bill Maher
The Winning Whiner — Donald J. Trump explained how he "wins" by whining in an interview
World's Greatest Troll — FiveThirtyEight Politics
Xenophobic Sweet Potato Donald Trump — Chris Hardwick
YUGE Asshole
YUGE Liar

http://www.thehypertexts.com/Donald%20Trump%20Nicknames.htm<br /> Zen Master of Hate
layman
 
  -4  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:31 am
@izzythepush,
Posting that godawful amount of spam in just one post proves that you have truly earned your nickname, eh, Dizzy?
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layman
 
  -4  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:35 am
Cheese-eaters can whine about "social justice" til the cows come home but it won't faze or slow The Donald down one damn bit, eh?

He will run roughshod over the PC garbage and nobody can stop him.

Nice try, cheese-eaters
izzythepush
 
  4  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:37 am
@layman,
You're the one doing all the whining. Try growing a pair, and wipe your chin.
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layman
 
  -3  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:40 am
More and more the incessant attacks on Trump have nothing to do with Trump's policies. Everything is a personal attack.

He's insane, egotistical, grandiose, a con man, has orange hair, has small hands, is not a polished speaker, ad infinitum.

That's all ya got.

Nice try, cheese-eaters.
hightor
 
  5  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:49 am
@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:
The lies of the Left are just as egregious as any lie that Mr. Trump has ever told.

I think you're missing the point. Yes, it's true that you can find irrational, foam-at-the-mouth crazies on either end of the political spectrum. But look:
Andrew Sullivan wrote:
They are direct refutations of reality — and their propagation and repetition is about enforcing his power rather than wriggling out of a political conundrum.

The loony left doesn't have power. They're out on the streets wearing black masks and protesting. The hand-wringing Democrats in Washington are moderates in comparison to the real extremists on the left. But when we look at the right, the extremists have actually taken power. We're not talking about some bunch of rag tag survivalists out west somewhere — the radical right has people at the top levels of the Trump administration. We're not talking about "egregious lies" being spouted by some bitter SJW at a demonstration or intoned by some self-styled Marxist professor at a liberal arts college — we're talking about "egregious lies" coming directly from Mr. Trump and the people he has placed in positions of power. The rightist "crazies" have displaced the moderate Republicans; the leftist "crazies" only wish they had such influence in the Democratic Party.
layman
 
  -3  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:49 am
It all rings hollow because, looky here:

He's worth billions, and you aint.

He has scammed the best of them--bankers, politicians, presidents, you name it; and you don't do nuthin but get chumped 24/7.

He's a winner, and you're a loser.

Live with it, cheese-eater.

Walter Hinteler
 
  4  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:51 am
@layman,
THAT are really convincing arguments, comrade/klansman layman!
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layman
 
  -2  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:51 am
@hightor,
Yeah, very astute, Hi.
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izzythepush
 
  5  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:52 am
@layman,
But it's such a repulsive personality, there's so much to attack. When Simon Brodkin was arrested for a brilliant Trump protest, Trump went down to the police station completely livid and complaining that this sort of thing keeps happening to him, to which Brodkin replied that he didn't have to be such a bellend. Then Trump got really upset when the Scottish police refused to let his security detail anywhere near Brodkin.

http://i2.cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160624124714-donald-trump-comedian-simon-brodkin-orig-dlewis-vstan-00000000-large-169.jpg
Eating cheese is infinitely preferable to lying down in obeisance to Cheddar boy. It's called having a backbone.
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layman
 
  -3  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:57 am
Given my position as the grand wizard of a 5-state KKK district, and a registered member of every alt.right organization known to man, Steve Bannon has had occasion to ask for my assistance in achieving certain plans, the nature of which I am not currently at liberty to reveal.

But I can tellya this. He didn't have to try to convince me or ask twice. All I had to say was:

Sho nuff, Steve. Any time, homeboy. Just tell me when.
izzythepush
 
  3  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 06:59 am
@layman,
Best not to talk about your position, some of us are trying to eat lunch..
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hightor
 
  4  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 07:02 am
@layman,
Quote:
He's worth billions

Prove it.
layman
 
  -4  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 07:03 am
@hightor,
hightor wrote:

Quote:
He's worth billions

Prove it.


Go ask Forbes, that's the bidnizz they're in, ya know?
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Walter Hinteler
 
  5  
Sat 11 Feb, 2017 07:09 am
Quote:
A new national survey suggests that we can no longer take for granted that our fellow citizens will stand up for the rule of law and democracy

There is much to celebrate in the court decision against President Trump’s immigration ban. It was a stirring victory for the rule of law and reaffirmation of the independence of the judiciary. Yet America faces a serious problem which that decision did not address: the erosion of public faith in the rule of law and democratic governance. [...]

In 2017, the rule of law and democracy itself are under attack by President Trump and his administration. This is as much a symptom as a cause of our current crisis. Public Policy Polling has released the startling results of a national survey taken this week. Those results show significant fissures in the public’s embrace of the rule of law and democracy.
[...]
If the rule of law and democracy are to survive in America we will need to address the decline in the public’s understanding of, and support for both. While we celebrate the Ninth Circuit’s decision on Trump’s ban, we also must initiate a national conversation about democracy and the rule of law. Civics education, long derided, needs to be revived.

Schools, civic groups, and the media must to go back to fundamentals and explain what basic American political values entail and why they are desirable. Defenders of democracy and the rule of law must take their case to the American people and remind them of the Founders’ admonition that: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

We need to remember that our freedom from an arbitrary or intrusive government depends on the rule of law and a functioning democracy. We need to rehabilitate both – before this crisis of faith worsens.
Source


PPP: Americans Now Evenly Divided on Impeaching Trump

 

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