Flag at half staff during the inauguration of a president? Not good.

Discussion in 'Politics' started by TreeFrogTrader, Jan 4, 2025.

  1. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    The republicans have no plans for reforms. they’ve already backtracked on inflation and healthcare and they haven’t even started yet.

    America votes on the economy and they perceived inflation was the democrats fault. If it doesn’t get better in two years Trump will lose the house and the senate.

    Whatever dysfunction there is in the system is as much of the fault of republicans as democrats.

    I was referring to the right wing tilt of the world. Steve Bannon purported that every seventy years there’s a massive disruptive event that affects America. There was the revolution, civil war and ww2. He believes we are due and Trump is the first step in this inevitability. If you extrapolate the rise of right wing governments in 1930s to now and if Steve is right, the next disruptive event could cost billions of lives.
     
    #21     Jan 4, 2025
  2. UsualName

    UsualName

    No. In the west incumbent governments got thrown out across all ideological spectrum. Yes there is a rise of far right political parties but ask how that is working out in Austria. The UK and South Korean conservative governments got completely upended, along with Modi’s party in India.

    As mentioned, just because some of these far right parties are gaining in popularity does not mean they can form a government in a parliamentary system either.

    Anyways, the answer is the west is becoming less stable and nationalism is rising giving authoritarian rulers new paths to controlling long time democratic countries.

    A democracy if you can keep it, indeed. Easy come, easy go.
     
    #22     Jan 4, 2025
  3. It is a ying and yang effect. The collapse of the ridiculous lefty woke green etc parties around the world - your kind of people- is at the root of the rise of the more nationalist parties. You and your ilk abused power while you had it. You asked voters to open their minds on ridiculous issues to the point where their brains fell out on to the floor.

    You are also reframing mainstream normal issues and positions as right wing and nationalist. For a country to have borders is not right wing. Preventing those in authority from cutting the private parts of children in the name of being progressive is not right wing or authoritarian. The country has been ill for so long under the dem leadership and leftiy parties of other countries that you have culture shock when you are presented with something normal.
     
    #23     Jan 4, 2025
  4. Tuxan

    Tuxan

    Happened with Nixon's 2nd inauguration and Trump modeled much of his presidency on Nixon. It's a curiosity but just coincidental. Trump is being as usual, selfish and vain.
     
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    #24     Jan 4, 2025
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  5. UsualName

    UsualName

    Meh the social issues is not a panacea for what is going on. I get you’re in a state of euphoria after the Republican win in America and that is some confirmation bias happening on your side of things but don’t get too giddy. There are still major issues like inequality in wealth and education that you are not accounting for.

    And that’s the larger point. This nationalism stuff may be a vent for the frustrations of people in some countries but it is not a solution. When you start looking here domestically cutting social security, keeping the minimum wage down, cutting Medicaid access will only drive the frustrations deeper. Deporting people, while right, will not help with any of the core issues facing the American people.

    But like I said, the government’s y’all’s. Let’s see what you do with it but I don’t want to hear no crying. Quite frankly the amount of complaining coming the right has become too much to interact with. If yall are going to do something then just do it and stop complaining about everything.
     
    #25     Jan 5, 2025
  6. newwurldmn

    newwurldmn

    complaining and not fixing things means another round of voting for the same issue.
     
    #26     Jan 5, 2025
  7. Yeh, and like you and your ilk had such a great grasp of what the core issues facing the American people were in the last campaign.

    Y'all need to just stand down and feel stupid for a longggggg time to come. Dems and regular Americans were not even on the same planet.
     
    #27     Jan 5, 2025
  8. mervyn

    mervyn

    cheetos is such a small person
     
    #28     Jan 5, 2025
  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Just a reminder that Nixon had the U.S. flag at half-staff at his inauguration for the passing of Truman.

    And this is just one example in U.S. history.
     
    #29     Jan 5, 2025
  10. UsualName

    UsualName

    Oh yeah I’m sure the American people will be happy with Trump and the republicans for a longggggggg time. Not.
     
    #30     Jan 5, 2025