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heavyblinker -> RE: Bannon plans to install 'Economic Nationalist' candidates in the GOP (10/22/2017 10:41:57 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Edwird
Right. So, explain to the audience here what fuckall your inane post has anything to do with the topic of economic nationalism.
I think his general narrative is that Bannon and Trump are true American heroes who have the courage to stand up to the globalists, and that this idea is so unthinkably complex for us lefties that we wouldn't possibly ever get it.
The problem is that in order to save the world from the globalists, you sort of have to know what you're doing, which is by far the biggest problem with Trumpism/Bannonism. Bannon truly thinks that the post-WWII world is the enemy, that its values are making it weak, and that the world is better off divided and violent than united and peaceful. Even if this repugnant movement comes to dominate the western world and all of Europe and America agrees to peacefully revert back to some variation of the late 19th/early 20th century 'Great Power' age (an immensely violent and pathologically cruel period in history, btw), their NWO will undoubtedly fall apart within a few years, causing all kinds of damage to the global social fabric.
The way I see it, this shit is the baby boomers who grew up on cold war propaganda making some last gasp effort to stop socialism from taking over the world and kids who think experimenting with fascism is cool.
It's all a logical extension of things like global warming denialism, post-industrial angst, economic anxiety leftover from the 2007 crash, the racist and sexist backlash against political correctness, patriarchy trying to reassert itself, etc... all of the things that cannot be sustained and no longer make sense are trying desperately to make themselves into the wave of the future.
Trump is doing wonders to associate the movement with unforgivable amounts of stupidity and incompetence, so that is helping, but it's not enough to completely undermine it, as Trump is just the idiot who won the election, not the one behind it all.
The ideas may have to be tried and they have to fail before people will reject them forcefully enough... I hope not, though, because it will undoubtedly lead to a truly ugly period in world history.
My biggest fear now is that another 9/11 (or something even bigger, like a nuclear attack on a major city) will somehow cause people to forget Bush, the world will start to crave the protection of a strongman and the proto-fascist movement will finally be able to completely undermine western liberal democracy and achieve its disgusting goals.
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