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President Trump admits to being a nationalist, what say you?
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A patriot who has unending love for his country refers to himself as a "nationalist", now I ask you, what is so BAD about loving your country? Many times I can recall you complaining about the liberals who whine about the silliest of things, yet here you are complaining about the president calling himself an "nationalist"? I think you need to be the one to "bugger" off, no one wants to hear of your complaints.
"Americanism not Globalism, will be our credo." ~Donald Trump
"A communist is like a crocodile" ~Winston Churchill
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I do not see him being nationalist as a major problem, however. He may be one, but his advisers are not. Him not knowing much about politics and economics as a whole is another matter. The tariffs and immigration bans are not signs of a bright statesman.
Trump for Republicans is what Sanders is for Democrats: talented salesman selling a faulty product. Nationalist or not, socialist or not - their personal views do not really matter, next to what it is they actually do once in power.
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Because I don't care whether or not he admitted he was a nationalist because he never tried to hide that
Blues and Raptors handed two very toxic teams embarrassing losses, 95% of the sports world is rejoicing in the news
Repealing the Second Amendment is the first step to Totalitarianism, and it needs to be prevented to protect our freedom
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Fun fact: soon after taking over, Russian president Vladimir Putin said, "I am a nationalist in the good sense of the word". A few years after, Russia was a full-on dictatorship.
It will not happen in the US, but the fact that presidents and leading presidential candidates can openly admit to following awful anti-Western ideologies and not be immediately disqualified signifies a strong shift in the collective consciousness. We have socialists on one side and nationalists on the other side. And old good classical liberals, that made this country what it is in the first place, seem to be slowly fading away. This is not a good sign, and I hope these trends are temporary.
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Nationalism is about arbitrary division of people into groups and assigning oneself to one of the groups, proclaiming that the group's interests is their interests. It is a logical fallacy.
For some reason, I am supposed to think that, just because I live in the US, I have more in common with some Californian guy 2,000 miles away from me, than with some guy from Toronto 300 miles away. It is a fallacy similar to racism, where just because I am white and someone else is also white, the assumption is that we form some meaningful group - even if the skin color is the only similarity between us, and we are polar opposite with regards to everything else.
It is not a good thing. One can work for the benefit of their country without believing that their country is somehow more important than other countries. Nationalism is a form of collective submission, not free collaboration.
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A couple of parts of the economy LOOK good. Jobs and Wall Street, that's about it. Can YOU keep your house? Buy a car? Send your kids to college? Afford GOOD health insurance? Put some money away every month? If you can, consider yourself one of the rich or fortunate, because you are in the minority. THAT is NOT a good economy. That is not what a good President OR Party would allow while watching it expand and spending $Billions on an ineffective wall.
He can't fill vacancies in his cabinet, (nobody with qualifications want to work for him), won't fill vacancies where judges are needed to handle the immigration problem. He doesn't give a damn about our National Parks, wildlife, water or air …. just money for those who don't really need it and are still "socking it away" in foreign banks or buying back their own stock to make it more valuable.
He gives more credence to dictators than to our own experts, intelligence or military, our own scientists, our own doctors, our own PEOPLE. He controls his base (1/3) while ignoring the majority (2/3) of the country's wishes.
Yep. He's a great patriot ……….. ????????????? He's going to "make America great again"??? :-(
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-"Regardless, he is doing exactly what the country wants and needs him to do, rather than pander to the people who could honestly care less."
What the country wants? Really? In 2016 the country probably wanted anyone but Clinton, I can probably give you that... But she nonetheless got more votes than Trump so even that is debatable...
So, Trump's agenda is actually what less than half of the country wanted... Not to say he didn't win because he obviously did, but saying it was what "The country" wanted, you are saying that more than half of the voters are not part of the country... Are you prepared to say the same when the democrats take back the white house in 2020? Let's say that, hypothetically, the dems win with the Green New Deal, single payer healthcare and marginal tax rates at 70% for households earning 5M and more in its platform, will you agree that it'll really be what "the country" wants and needs? If it's good for one, it should be good for everyone right?
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This is truth. Exactly what is bad about caring for your own country? The land that has given you much opportunity, a land that you strongly love. Trump is not a "Adolf Hitler" he is a man with balls who is willing to do anything to help his people and his country. If he likes to call himself a "nationalist" he may do so, its his freedom of speech. And yes there are many who mock him, hate him, but he could care less, he sure is brave! So that's what I have to say.
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