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Thread #161316   Message #3832596
Posted By: Jim Carroll
14-Jan-17 - 02:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Kompromat. Trump. Brexit. Something odd.
Subject: RE: BS: Kompromat. Trump. Brexit. Something odd.
"Jim you do not seem to accept that President elect Trump won the election under the American voting system"
That's not what I said - I do believe that now proven Russian interference makes it questionable whether that system was interference, but that's beside the point.
I don't believe that the populism that has recently become the norm has little, if anything to do with democracy and more to do with mob rule, but again, tat is beside the point.
As said, Hitler came to power via Germany's version of Democracy - should he have been allowed to do what he did without interference or recrimination?
I set out what I believe is and what he stands for
The question I asked is is that a fair description and if so, is it right that the world should accept that because he was elected?
Apartheid South Africa happened under an electoral system of sorts yet it was finaly overturned by outside pressure - was that undemocratic?
Where do you go with this.
I ask again - is what is being thought of Trump accurate, and if so, is that sort of individual the person whose finger should be on the nuclear button, is America fit to remain a member of the U.N., and exercise a veto, what attitude do we expect our own government to adopt to such a leader......
At this stage, I'm not questioning the validity of the vote - just the consequences of the result
Why is it so hard to get a response, do you think?
We are discussing an extreme problem here
Jim Carroll