[FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

[Prof David West]

Mueller will disclose nothing except what everyone already knows - Trump
and his circle are immoral opportunists - totally corrupt and completely
blind to those occasions they cross the thin line of absolutely
technical legality (however much they violate the spirit of law) into
the indictable and convict-able behavior.
And Trump will survive and almost certainly be re-elected. Especially if
the opposition is Bernie, Beto, or Biden - or, and don't dismiss this
out of hand, Hillary.
And we should learn a lot about isms: perhaps most importantly the
difference between narcissism and fascism (nobody is getting that
difference, so far).
And it would serve "the opposition" to get a clue about the fact that
the vast majority of Trump supporters do not suffer from racism, sexism,
'genderism', "me-first-ism," etc. Instead recognize that their primary
affliction is individualism - and even libertarian-ism (despite some
obvious contradictions from the religious among them) - along with
corollaries of "anti-government control-ism," "personal-responsibility-
ism," and "my-values-are-just-as-valid-as-yours-ism."
davew


On Wed, Dec 26, 2018, at 9:36 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Dear Pollyanna,


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> It will end and we’ll all learn an important lesson?     


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> Whew, I was worried there for a minute!


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> Thanks,


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> Marcus


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> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm
> <jofr at cas-group.net> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
> Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> *Date: *Wednesday, December 26, 2018
> at 6:53 AM *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> <friam at redfish.com> *Subject: *[FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism>  


> Merry christmas and a happy new year 2019! I hope Mueller will finish
> his report in 2019 and I assume president Trump will either resign or
> be impeached like Nixon, since the House belongs now to the democrats
> (Did you know "Mueller" is the German version of "Miller" btw? As you
> know a miller is someone who creates the flour we need for life) Then
> Donald will spend the rest of his life in prison or seek asylum in
> Russia. This would be the end of "Trumpism". But who knows, it's a
> complex world. In hindsight we will learn more about "Trumpism" as
> well. At the moment it seems to be a mixture of the original Italian
> fascism and post-soviet authoritarianism, i.e. the rule of an
> authoritarian leader who demands absolute loyalty and trusts only his
> family. I believe we can only decode social systems if we really
> understand the various forms of *-isms like fascism, nazism or
> communism, and how they are related.>  


> -Jochen


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