Time and again, I see the focus groups who support Trump say that he is what they want precisely because they are sick and tired of suave and polish. They say they've had that and didn't get any benefit from it. They make their simplistic arguments because they don't know any other argument to make. If they don't value education and sophistication, it is because they can't understand what good it would do them, and they have been actively harmed by those things, at least in their own minds. Is there some reason that we who call ourselves the party of inclusion can't make any effort to show these people what the benefits of reading books, a college education, or having an open mind with which to explore new ideas can be a good thing? They fear what they don't understand, so maybe we should try to help them understand without prejudice, rather than simply dismissing them as useless. When we ignore them as being useless, we show ourselves to be hypocritical to our own values rather than of being willing to embrace and practice them.

Patriotism is a form of false pride for those who have nothing of their own of which they can be proud. it is little more than a tribal characteristic of banal instinct that provides a gratifying sensation of self worth.

How can one be proud of being born within a particular geographical area of which they had absolutely no input? Clearly, reflective thought is not a part of this end. Reflective thought would require one to objectively evaluate the actions of their country, and the effect those actions have on them and the world as a whole. If one were to honestly do so. one, as I, would realize a great desire to expatriate to a less religious, more equitable country as one would find in Scandinavia and Western Europe.

In contemporary America, the Tea-Baggers base their definition of what it is to be an American on geography and ignorance. They are not cosmopolitan by any stretch of the imagination, nor do they show any sign of cultural curiosity. They are simply demonstrating territorial instinct, as do others with similar cerebral deficits.

Patriotism to one's country is understood, and need not be expressed. If one feels inclined to overtly express such, then one is expressing nationalism, not patriotism.

I get tired of hearing the same shit over and over again, but the original meaning of the acronym for reporting events was to designate happenings from north, east, west, and south.

about how wonderful trumpervert is and how nasty democrats are.

forces a fifth-grader to wear a suit and tie all the time?

Caused a big stink in the casino industry when he instituted a policy that mandated 20% of front-line employees tips go to management personnel. Every other gaming company had to issue statements reassuring their employees that they would not follow suit. Wynn is widely held in contempt by his former casino employees. This is probably where trumpervert got his recent inspiration to take yet more money from tipped employees.

trying to kiss-ass the elite who hate him.

Posted about this before, as have many others I think...and Bayrock LLC is simply a multi-layered equity front for money laundering and tax evasion/distribution. The whole "Trump Organization" is a Russian (Soviet) front.

The overweening conceit of our primitive war-mongering backward race will result in extinction, leaving the planet to heal itself and eventually be discovered by a space-faring species that is worthy of it.