acptulsa
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This is why there is so much stagnation amongst libertarian-minded individuals. The insane purity testing is almost impossible to beat. Look how long it took for someone like Ron Paul to show up. I know some people here have been arguing against Rand over the years too because he isn't a carbon copy of his dad and has made some missteps. Any improvement and increased awareness is better than nothing. Incrementalism is how you change the sentiment of the people, it rarely radically changes overnight.
Incrementalism is how totalitarianism changes sentiment. When totalitarians are overthrown, it's generally pretty quick and an instant transformation.
And Donald John Trump is no Rand Paul. We have never gotten anywhere good by refusing to separate the conservatives from the RINOs.
It sounds like what you're getting at is, "This restaurant has some dishes with mushrooms and I HATE mushrooms. I will never eat there."
I'm not even slightly getting your analogy. Trump is supposed to be the restaurant, and I'm supposed to ignore what's wrong with him? The Republican Party is the restaurant? The fact that he destroyed the currency I'm expected to use, to enrich Pfizer for killing friends of mine, is a mushroom? What?
I have never heard a Trump fan say the system would work if only we had Trump, and I live in a county that went 80% for Trump in 2020. Most of them want to torch the whole damn thing, doubly so now that the two-tiered system of justice is plainly on display.
The homeless in Seattle are torching the whole damned thing. The blacks spent 2020 trying to torch the whole damned thing. The immigrants who were marched all the way up Central America to find none of the opportunities promised them, just a chance to be a political football, are trying to find some torches.
They're trying to manipulate everyone else to torch the whole damned thing. What makes you think they aren't trying to get you to think the same damned thing?
Meanwhile, they themselves aren't hesitant to use torches. Look, there goes another chicken plant. Look, there goes another forest...
A couple more things Trump never, ever talks about. He has no solutions, he won't talk about the ones that are out there, he's collecting victim cards, attention whoring and stirring the pot. They've fitted him with a solid gold crown of thorns, and way too many people are thinking he can and might save something or someone. It isn't just that he's completely inadequate to the task which must be done. He's sucking all the oxygen out of the room so no one else can step up.
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