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2016-12-03 Home Front: Politix

CNN’s David Gergen Knocks Trump for Focusing on Domestic Policy

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Posted by Fred 2016-12-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 It’s goodbye to globalization.

From your mouth to the ear of G*d.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-03 02:02|| 2016-12-03 02:02|| Front Page Top

#2 "I think there was any doubt that we’re putting an end in one chapter in American history and moving on to a new one he dispelled that doubt tonight," he whined after bemoaning, "The alpha male reappeared tonight."

Like that's a bad thing?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-12-03 02:42|| 2016-12-03 02:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Globalism was a silly thing promoted by people who think that a few tech trinkets can cause a complete redo of human nature. And that they can profit and be the ones with all the money, and in charge, in the process.

Inherent fear of nationalism is as ridiculous and dangerous as seeing nationalism as the end-all and be-all.

Our species might be ready for the concept of "world citizen" in a thousand generations, but probably never. One of the many genius ideas from the Founding Fathers was the notion of balance between centralization and atomization. Subsidiarity is inherently necessary for optimum life among humans. The globalists went to great lengths to convince everyone otherwise and it has blown up in their face.

Posted by no mo uro 2016-12-03 06:24|| 2016-12-03 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 See - "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world": it was George Washington's Farewell Address to us. The inaugural pledge of Thomas Jefferson was no less clear: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none."

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-03 08:58|| 2016-12-03 08:58|| Front Page Top

#5 GW Bush was going to concentrate on the domestic stuff, then 9-11 drove the entire neocon contingent entirely mad. let's hope history does not repeat.

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-12-03 10:33|| 2016-12-03 10:33|| Front Page Top

#6 David Gergen - "the talking thumb"

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-03 10:48|| 2016-12-03 10:48|| Front Page Top

#7 "We won. Get over it."

Posted by Raj 2016-12-03 13:24|| 2016-12-03 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 I wish that this was good-bye to globalism but it's not.

The sun will come up tomorrow and the slime will continue to ooze.

I first encountered the globalist mind 50 years ago as a college freshman and the World Federalists were recruiting. Sounded reasonable for a while then as I got older (like about 2 months) I realized that utopia just ain't in the cards. The New Soviet Man is just the same old polish on a turd.

Doesn't matter though, Hope springs eternal that utopia is just around the corner.......if we can just find the right corner.

Posted by AlanC 2016-12-03 14:14|| 2016-12-03 14:14|| Front Page Top

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