"You only hate Obama because he's black"

[Brian37]

NO, you may not think that of yourself, but you are supporting a party that uses fear to get votes, and it only takes a few to buy that fear to hold everyone else hostage.

And that's one of the big problems with our two party, winner take all system.  We're seeing how easy it is for someone charismatic to step up, feed off of people's fear largely borne of ignorance, and intensify that fear, creating a feedback loop.  

Now, it's not all Trump, but this is the culmination of the Tea Party movement.  Ignorance is championed.  Hate is fuel.  Fear must be obliterated rather than understood.  Bravado above all else.  The only thing missing is a trend to evangelicalism, and, well, that's what Cruz is for.

At least the Germans had crippling post-war poverty to blame for wanting to listen to a person who had easy answers.  What's our excuse?

"At least" what the fuck kind of argument is that? So because we were and are not as bad off as Germans were, that excuses Trump's xenophobic bullshit? 

That is the same bullshit argument used by the economic right "Third world poor have it worse than our poor".

No, that is just another bullshit excuse the rich make to justify a race to the bottom so they can maximize profits on cheap labor.

No we are most certainly NOT Germany, which is why that asshole Trump should not be demonizing Mexicans or Muslims as if they were Jews.

Yes our poor SHOULD have it better, we are the richest nation in the world, so there is no excuse for lack of livable wages. And if the assholes on the economic right would do the right thing and pay livable wages they would find that would create that "less dependency" they all claim we should be.

NOW economics in our species history always leads to unrest just like stretching a rubber band too far, it will break. Now when that unrest happens, we see our species over correct in the opposite direction. The issue is not no rules or nanny state,  that is a bullshit argument. The issue is abuse of power. And any system you set up can be manipulated regardless. 

MONOPOLIES OF POWER can take place in political ideology, religious ideology, economic ideology and class ideology or a combo of those. But there is still NOT ONE government on the face of the planet, friend or foe, that does not invest in the global market. NOT ONE.

Far too many libertarians and republicans have been sold the bullshit idea that "capitalism" is a form of government and it is not. China allows western business and it's one party dictatorship keeps it's power by allowing western businesses. The Saudi Royal family owns oil companies and invests in banks and weapons. Gadaffi was a billionaire that owned stock in GE.

NOW liberals are not communists nor do we want Stalin's Russia. But it still remains that worker pay is not keeping up with the cost of living. PERIOD.

We do have a plutocracy and it does not require a one party state or a family dictatorship to happen. MONOPOLY OF POWER is the issue.