“Heart-lung machine” or “Iron lung”, either one …

December 21st, 2015 at 12:44 pm

Ymarsakar:

Trump’s supporters tend to be older, not younger. See this. See also this, where in a head to head with Hillary among registered voters, Trump is leading 47/43 among over-65 voters but is woefully behind, 25/70, with those under 30.”

Trump is, ostensibly, about preserving interests which the young, by and large, neither have nor appreciate.

What interest has a skinny young man with cow-eyes and girl hands and footie PJs have in freedom? He’s spent his entire life – and is probably existentially dependent upon – a redistributive system.

It’s like telling someone on a heat lung machine that you intend to stop paying their electric bill, and then putting it up to a vote.

Trump’s supporters tend to be older, not younger. See this. See also this, where in a head to head with Hillary among registered voters, Trump is leading 47/43 among over-65 voters but is woefully behind, 25/70, with those under 30.

“In fact, having a Democrat in the White House is probably good for business. They don’t want to have to lead on anything — they’ve had ample opportunity to do so! — and a Democrat president is a nice foil for them. They can enjoy the status quo, enjoy all the crony capital cash, enjoy the perks of office, and as the country continues to crash and burn, they can tell the folks back home it’s all President Hillary’s fault.”

I think the fact that terms like “crony capitalism” have gained so much traction, highlights the fact that there is a certain amount of “truth” to the notion that with Dems a kind of social quite ensues across the board.

It is a kind of “truth” that in part is inoculated from emotional dis-confirmation if you are on the left as the lumpen-proletariat left is happy if they are convinced that they are officially loved and valued.

That constituency values feelings of inclusion more than property rights under law. They tolerate objective stagnation and regression of a sort that would have had them storming the White House if a Republican were in office.

And in part it is the result of the phenomenon that the conservative middle of the country functions in such a way – while caring for their families and responsibilities – as to unwittingly “enable” the activities of the left even as they are being relentlessly squeezed.

The left knows this anthropological pattern and takes advantage of it. And until they can kick the scaffolding of the middle class (type of human) away once and for all, they count on it. That is in fact what their whole position on marginal tax rates boils down to: that there is no, or only the mildest, disincentive on the part of the productive to carrying an albatross around their necks, if the government can force them to do so. The victims have after all only two obvious choices: bear the burden or let the house burn down. The other is to drop all they are doing and rebel at the polls or in the streets.

The Founder’s recognized how natural it is for people to put up with impositions until it is almost too late.

If conservatives cannot be trusted to make an open stand and stick with it, there’s no reason committing to anything means anything.

If people were really fighting a war, they wouldn’t make their goals so honest and open. They would hide it, just as the Left and Hussein hid it.

It’s not a geographic phenomenon, it’s an internet phenomenon, thus most are probably younger than 30 atm.

So hey, if the Tea Party plan didn’t work right away, let’s elect a liberal loudmouth like Trump instead!

I call your attention to this post of mine.

My solution to this is that two things are needed: a more conservative Congress and a Republican president. So I suggest people work for a Republican president and try to get more conservative Republicans into Congress so that they represent a stronger bloc.

That’s what the Tea Party movement and other conservatives have been trying to do. The problem is distinguishing the fake conservatives from the real conservatives. Take Rubio, for example. He ran a come-from-behind campaign with lots of support from the Tea Party folk. Once elected, the first thing he does is join the gang of eight. Their amnesty bill passed the senate. The only thing that stopped it from passing the house was Cantor’s surprise defeat; the votes Boehner had whipped into line evaporated.

Five of the 37 members of the house Freedom Caucus voted for the omnibus bill. That bill gave the Democrats more than they bargained for and it is a disgrace that any GOP rep. or senator voted for it. So, even declared conservatives cannot be trusted to vote conservative.

It would take many election cycles to build a conservative majority bloc, if ever, especially since the system heavily favors incumbents.

When the current campaign started, I favored Walker, Cruz and Perry. Two folded early, leaving Cruz as the most conservative candidate. However, the more I learn about Cruz, the less I trust him. His position on illegal immigration shifts with the wind. The one thing he won’t commit to is deporting them. There is nothing to stop a future Democrat from giving them a path to citizenship and the vote. That would guarantee Democrat control of the country for generations.