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| Glenn Reynolds: Donald Trump is the response to a bullying culture |
| 2016-05-31 |
| Back in February, analyzing Donald Trump's appeal, David Gelernter wrote: "Political correctness. Trump hasn't made it a campaign theme exactly, but he mentions it often with angry disgust. Reporters, pundits, and the other candidates treat it as a sideshow, a handy way for Trump (King Kong Jr.) to smack down the pitiful airplanes that attack him as he bestrides his mighty tower, roaring. But the analysts have it exactly backward. Political correctness is the biggest issue facing America today. ...Political correctness is not, as some might claim, just an effort to encourage niceness. As Gelernter notes, it's an effort to control people. Like the Newspeak in George Orwell's 1984, the goal is to make it impossible for people to speak, or even think, unapproved thoughts. ...So nobody "respectable" was willing to launch a full-scale counterattack on PC, on or off-campus. Crack the occasional joke, maybe. But actually do something? Not so much. But when "respectable" people won't talk about things that a lot of voters care about, the less-respectable will eventually rise to meet the need. That's what Trump's doing. And a lot of people are cheering him on not so much because they're fans of Trump personally as because they're happy to see someone finally stand up to the PC bullies. Will electing Trump solve all the nation's problems? Nope. But, as mentioned above, it will show that more than half the country rejects the culture of political correctness, and the political class that let it take over. And for many people, that’s reason enough. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 oops, left my k off. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-05-31 22:09 |
| #2 EU, in New Mexico, the 'Hispanics' in the southern tier identify themselves of Mexican decent. The middle and northern tier identity themselves as Spanish decent. I live not far from a village that was founded 60 years after Jamestown. They are not amused about the 'illegals' anymore than you or I. Governor Martinez comes from the southern portion, thus the friction with the Trump. |
| Posted by: Procopius2 2016-05-31 22:04 |
| #1 So we have an estimated 12 million illegal aliens now living in the United States. I give you this number but I don't believe anybody knows how many there really are. Anyway, they came here illegally. They broke our nation's laws the minute they stepped across the border. Then they proceeded to take advantage of all the resources and benefits available in our nation regardless of the cost to the tax paying citizens. They take jobs and housing that would normally be available for citizens. They wave their Mexican flags and walk around like they own the place. They threaten our political system by creating a vast new voting block that votes consistently for the Democrats. Most of them are basically good people but there are those among them who are criminals and others who have dubious, foreign political agendas. They have no legal or logical argument to justify what they have done but they have something that seems to work even better whenever anybody calls for them to be deported and for the border to be secured: They call us racists. It is a base and dishonest appeal to emotions that has no place in our political discourse. There are a great many Hispanics who are citizens, whose families have been in this country for generations. If you have friends who are among these Hispanics, if you value those relationships, it really hurts to be called a racist. That's what political correctness will do for you. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2016-05-31 19:24 |