{"id":4881,"date":"2018-01-12T05:29:54","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T05:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/12\/trump-speaks-the-truth-and-snowflakes-melt\/"},"modified":"2018-01-12T05:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T05:29:54","slug":"trump-speaks-the-truth-and-snowflakes-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/01\/12\/trump-speaks-the-truth-and-snowflakes-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Speaks the Truth and Snowflakes Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Is there any question Haiti is a s***hole? Who\u2019s offended by that? If it wasn\u2019t a s***hole it wouldn\u2019t be one of the most prominent recipients of American charity aid on Planet Earth. And it isn\u2019t like this country has ignored Haiti \u2014 we\u2019ve been trying to lift it out of s***hole status for more than a century, with absolutely no result whatever. In 1910, President William Howard Taft granted Haiti a large loan in hopes that Haiti could pay off its staggering international debt and therefore achieve a larger measure of independence from Europe. The result? Haiti defaulted and U.S. tax dollars were poured into a bottomless pit.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The open-borders crowd doesn\u2019t want to talk about that, though, and it wants to call you racist if you\u2019re opposed to a deluge of immigrants from the worst places on earth. That\u2019s why Trump\u2019s \u201cs***holes\u201d objection is big news rather than the fact there are so-called political leaders who can\u2019t agree to reorient our immigration policy toward taking people who can successfully assimilate here.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between the two, the crude man who tells the truth and looks out for his own citizens is preferable to the genteel man who sells us out for cheap labor or ballot-box fuel for a political machine. If Trump is the former, so be it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exactly right. The career politician is concerned primarily about his career and the power, perquisites, and pelf it provides. Despite what he says, the typical Republican is not primarily concerned about the welfare of the country.  So he talks and talks, but never gets anything done, as if politics is endless gentlemanly discourse and nothing more.  Well, talk is cheap and it allows the evasion of hard decisions.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Relevant is the following quotation from Carl Schmitt, Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty<\/em>, tr. George Schwab, University of Chicago Press, 1985: <\/span><\/p>\n

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According to Donoso Cort\u00e9s, it was characteristic of bourgeois liberalism not to decide in this battle but to begin a discussion. He straightforwardly defined the bourgeoisie as a \u201cdiscussing class,\u201d una clasa discutidora<\/em>. It has thus been sentenced. This definition contains the class characteristic of wanting to evade the decision. A class that shifts all political activity onto the plane of conversation in the press and in parliament is no match for social conflict. (59)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Trump is rude, crude, devoid of gravitas<\/em>, self-absorbed, and given to exaggeration. He has orange hair. A statement he once made suggests that he is tolerant of pussy-grabbing. But so what given<\/em> that he understands and threatens to act upon the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

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1) There is no right to immigrate.<\/span><\/p>\n

2) Immigration must be to the benefit of the host country.<\/span><\/p>\n

3) There is a distinction between legal and illegal immigration, and the latter must be severely curtailed if it cannot be stopped entirely.<\/span><\/p>\n

4) Potential immigrants must share the values of the host country and respect its culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

5) Potential immigrants must be assimilable and willing to assimilate.<\/span><\/p>\n

6) With respect to immigration to the USA, preference ought to be given to potential immigrants from Ireland and Norway, say, rather than from Haiti, say.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No Democrat really believes (as opposed to insincerely giving verbal assent to) all or even most of the above, and few Republicans would be willing to act upon these propositions.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is why Trump is our last chance. If he caves, then it's all over.<\/span><\/p>\n

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