Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
When we talk about parts of Germany being “left behind”, we are talking about first-world problems. These areas are still wealthy by world and historical standards. But, their wealth and economic growth is smaller than the big cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoQgoV-T8wM
The AfD has completely polarized a German town where disputes used to be easily resolved over a beer. They take over German villages as a strategy, first just establishing a base in a pub or something, then spreading their message, then polarizing the town by: ending trust, lying about anyone who speaks out, and suing and criminally reporting people who are against them. They also threaten opponents, especially AfD apostates. When dealing with external and internal opponents, the party focuses on threats and insults over discussion of the issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gedOEGjyMHA
The AfD is heavily supported by Russian propaganda. The AfD is against stopping Russia from conquering Ukraine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwgFeOJH6tk
Trump’s bombastic behavior of threats, tariffs, and war are making the world more skeptical of the United States. China is taking advantage of that and arguing that they are the more reliable power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFNVYZMNMk
The DSA has shown that they can win some blue districts, but they haven’t shown that they can win elections that, without their supposed DSA advantages, would have been won by a Republican.
The socialist politician to have won the most support on a national level is Bernie Sanders, and he is not a member of the DSA.
Republicans love running against the DSA and right-wing media likes plastering Democrats as the DSA, but Democrats are not the DSA. We are talking about a handful of successful politicians, not most Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHsJRddkWNY
Liberalism should be for the freedom and opportunity of the individual, and focus on harmful concentrations of power in government, business, institutions, and culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTmpwVCC2So
Trump went to war without the willingness to win it if Iran simply fought back in predictable ways.
Trump can get away with acting like a jackass for the same reason he can get away with grabbing women by the pussie…he’s a celebrity. When you’re a celebrity, they let you do anything you want. Other Republicans who have tried to imitate Trump, have not been very successful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eeu-k4-6Vw
Former Republican with experience doing this, says Republican officials and media people afraid of Trump have to couch any criticism of Trump with blame on one of Trump’s many “enemies” to appease their overlord.
A lot of Republican-leaning policy coalitions have been betrayed by Trump and most of them still cheer for him and lie for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZMAlLItOO0
Rubio compares the audaciousness of American colonists rebelling against the British empire and creating the world’s first modern democracy, and the US landing on the moon…to UFC creating a successful fighting company.
Rubio knows this is nonsense. He is lying for Trump. Rubio used to be a respectful Senator, now he drinks Trump’s fluids from both sides every day on national television.
Don’t get me wrong, UFC is cool and I respect the sport and business that they built, but the audacity of creating the world’s first modern democracy, rebelling against the greatest empire on Earth, and landing on the moon…are incomparable to creating a cool sports fighting business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65h0PcTSWNE
When people said false things about Obama or had exaggerated fears, John McCain corrected the falsity and tamped down the fears. Donald Trump on the other hand, spreads falsehoods and stokes unbased fears.
Unbased fears and falsehoods are a natural part of society. Responsible leaders tend to correct falsehoods and tamp down unbased fears. Irresponsible leaders stoke them.
Obama was handed the worst economic circumstances in a long time, and the other party in a two-party system gathered and explicitly decided to stand against him on everything–a full court press.
Obama deeply wanted bi-partisan healthcare reform, but Republicans refused to play ball. Maybe if some of them did, we could have got a better reform.
Obama made some basic comments about an older black man being arrested while trying to get into his own home, and the right exploded, calling Obama racist and saying he had a problem with white people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBPHMR5BVqU