America's Self Destructive Left...

Adam-Troy Castro

I've said this for ages, the greatest gift to the Right, is the Left's inability to make actual affirmative arguments for their causes (the Adam-Troy Castro piece https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10217323838830541&id=1310152014 ISN'T one) and their intolerance based on a false presumption of moral superiority.

The Democrats SHOULD BE able to appeal to someone like myself.

I am pro abortion (at least until the child can survive outside the womb), in fact I support MANDATED birth control and when necessary, abortion for all dependent poor.

I support gay rights.

I support gun rights.

I support the Surveillance State and Capital Punishment.

I support a balance between Supply and DEMAND side economics. ANY worker (ESPECIALLY management and professional employees) working over 40 hours/week should get time and a half. Higher wages translates into higher demand.

I am not religious.

I DO support business owners being able to act on deeply held beliefs, which is why, along with two lesbian bakers from NJ, I supported Jack Phillips.

A ruling against Phillips would mean those two lesbian bakers could be forced to bake a cake adorned with anti gay slurs (which Phillips would also refuse to bake), a Jewish baker could be forced to bake a cake for Hitler's birthday, adorned with swastikas, a Muslim baker could be forced to bake a cake with Mohammed's image on it. ALL of those are no less protected than sexual preference.

Most of my stands are compatible with many on the Left, certainly many of them are far less popular on the Right, BUT I can't support the American Left...American "Progressives," largely because they either can't, or won't make arguments for what they believe and even more so because of their self destructive intolerance.

HOWEVER, I'm also a Nationalist...so that's a deal breaker with our entire political-media class. I've shorted the Euro for a very long time...my hope is that it is eradicated when the EU inevitably crumbles. I'm a Bannon, Haider, LePen, Kurz, Conte, Orban supporter.

Yes, there's money at stake, but that's NOT the primary issue for me.

BUT....even on that score, no one can make actual arguments against my Nationalist position. "We all need international trade and the ability of people to migrate and assimilate into other cultures"...are arguments FOR Nationalism and AGAINST Globalism.

At any rate, since I DO NOT like the Left...I DESPISE Antifa and BLM, and I reject the idea of "white privilege," "male privilege," etc., OR the inane idea that the patriarchal nuclear family, the alleged "cornerstone of capitalism" is evil, I WANT the Left to continue on its current path, with its current approach.
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Another anguished post from a Trump supporter: "Why do liberals think Trump supporters are stupid?"

The serious answer.

Sigh; we do sometimes fall into that rhetorical trap, out of frustration, but if we were to be 100% honest with you we would admit that we find quite a few people on our own side stupid as well, mostly people who have boiled all the complicated issues into slogans and really don't comprehend what they're saying. I think you guys probably look at the dumber of your compatriots and think, "Jesus, this guy's barely rubbing his brain cells together, but at least he can wave a sign."

No, this is what we really think about Trump supporters, the rich, the poor, the malignant and the innocently well-meaning, the ones who think and the ones who don't.

That when you saw a man who had owned a fraudulent University, intent on scamming poor people, you thought "Fine."

That when you saw a man who had made it his business practice to stiff his creditors, you said, "Okay."

That when you heard him proudly brag about his own history of sexual abuse, you said, "No problem."

That when he made up stories about seeing muslim-Americans in the thousands cheering the destruction of the World Trade Center, you said, "Not an issue."

That when you saw him brag that he could shoot a man on Fifth Avenue and you wouldn't care, you chirped, "He sure knows me."

That when you heard him illustrate his own character by telling that cute story about the elderly guest bleeding on the floor at his country club, the story about how he turned his back and how it was all an imposition on him, you said, "That's cool!"

That when you saw him mock the disabled, you thought it was the funniest thing you ever saw.

That when you heard him brag that he doesn't read books, you said, "Well, who has time?"

That when the Central Park Five were compensated as innocent men convicted of a crime they didn't commit, and he angrily said that they should still be in prison, you said, "That makes sense."

That when you heard him tell his supporters to beat up protesters and that he would hire attorneys, you thought, "Yes!"

That when you heard him tell one rally to confiscate a man's coat before throwing him out into the freezing cold, you said, "What a great guy!"

That you have watched the parade of neo-Nazis and white supremacists with whom he curries favor, while refusing to condemn outright Nazis, and you have said, "Thumbs up!"

That you hear him unable to talk to foreign dignitaries without insulting their countries and demanding that they praise his electoral win, you said, "That's the way I want my President to be."

That you have watched him remove expertise from all layers of government in favor of people who make money off of eliminating protections in the industries they're supposed to be regulating and you have said, "What a genius!"

That you have heard him continue to profit from his businesses, in part by leveraging his position as President, to the point of overcharging the Secret Service for space in the properties he owns, and you have said, "That's smart!"

That you have heard him say that it was difficult to help Puerto Rico because it was the middle of water and you have said, "That makes sense."

That you have seen him start fights with every country from Canada to New Zealand while praising Russia and quote, "falling in love" with the dictator of North Korea, and you have said, "That's statesmanship!"

That you have witnessed all the thousand and one other manifestations of corruption and low moral character and outright animalistic rudeness and contempt for you, the working American voter, and you still show up grinning and wearing your MAGA hats and threatening to beat up anybody who says otherwise.

What you don't get, Trump supporters in 2018, is that succumbing to frustration and thinking of you as stupid may be wrong and unhelpful, but it's also...hear me...charitable.

Because if you're NOT stupid, we must turn to other explanations, and most of them are *less* flattering. (Adam-Troy Castro)