Donald Trump

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Bars wrote:

The Democrats are amateurs. The real Marxist is Trump, who does his best to promote capitalism and thus speeds up the progress of history to the point where capitalism will collapse under its own weight :P

Decades ago, socialist Albert Einstein predicted how capitalism would collapse under its own weight and destroy democracy. To sum up his answer in two words: fake news. No really, he imagined powerful corporate interests gaining ever-increasing "control, directly or indirectly," over "the main sources of information (press, radio, education). It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights." (Source)

Thing is, much like Hari Seldon couldn't predict the Mule, Marx et al couldn't predict the Internet. By taking the initiative, Al Gore saved us from fake news (such as "An Inconvenient Truth") and thus saved capitalism. The time of Marxist prophecy has came and went, with the prophecy unfulfilled: Clinton is not President.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

No really, he imagined powerful corporate interests gaining ever-increasing "control, directly or indirectly," over "the main sources of information (press, radio, education).

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Bars wrote:

Morbo, if you think Trump is fundamentally different than Hillary, you're not seeing the writing on the wall. He's simply the representative of different lobbies. The eccentric billionaire act is good, but it's mostly dust and mirrors. Focus on the word "billionaire".

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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Bars wrote:

Morbo, if you think Trump is fundamentally different than Hillary, you're not seeing the writing on the wall. He's simply the representative of different lobbies. The eccentric billionaire act is good, but it's mostly dust and mirrors. Focus on the word "billionaire".

I think it's pretty clear he was fundamentally different, otherwise the entire corporatist propaganda machine wouldn't have arrayed against him in one of the most relentless smear campaigns of all time... and still ongoing. At a minimum, the list Trump represented compared to Clinton was much, much, much shorter.

I say "was" because I know those lobbies would certainly want him as their representative, and are desperately trying to go back to The Before Time when they owned the President. Whether or not they've succeeded should be a continual question in all of our minds. I'm very serious about that.

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Bars wrote:

Morbo, if you think Trump is fundamentally different than Hillary, you're not seeing the writing on the wall. He's simply the representative of different lobbies. The eccentric billionaire act is good, but it's mostly dust and mirrors. Focus on the word "billionaire".