<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">If vacuity and mendacity were excised from US politics, there'd be very little left.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Trump's ‘policies' aren't even worth discussing, except satirically”: that’s what Clinton et al. are desperate to get you to believe, because they know his criticisms, however ill-formed, attack the real issues - Clinton's neoliberalism (more inequality) and neoconservatism (more war). So they insist you not take them seriously - it’s too dangerous.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Trump’s surge in the polls comes from people’s recognition that that’s so, in spite of corporate media. Cf. what happened in the UK, where the media and ‘informed opinion' were overwhelmingly opposed to Brexit, and it (quite properly) won. Trump may do the same. <br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 27, 2016, at 3:38 PM, John W. <<a href="mailto:jbw292002@gmail.com" class="">jbw292002@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 7:19 AM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Pro-jobs and anti-war - after 15 years of growing (and accelerating) inequality and war.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Well, for whatever it's worth, Trump is vacuous and mendacious. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">His trickle-down economics will do nothing to "create jobs". We know that; we've experienced that; we know why it doesn't work. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">His stop and frisk will constitute a (further) war on minorities.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He vacillates on foreign policy. He doesn't want us to police the world, but he thinks we should have left troops in Iraq to prevent the formation of ISIS. The world leaders he respects most are Putin and that murderous goofball with the ridiculous haircut in North Korea.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Trump's "policies" aren't even worth discussing, except satirically. He's a narcissistic empty suit. He speaks in third-grade sounds bites which sound good to the basket of deplorables, who wouldn't vote in their own self-interest, let alone the nation's, if it was the only option on the ballot.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Anyone who compares Trump to either Hillary or Obama is....well, no need to finish the sentence.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Trump’s voters see their life-chances as not equal to their parents’ - that’s why they respond to “Make America great again."<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">An empty sound bite. Not even particularly full of sound and fury.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">JBW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> On Sep 27, 2016, at 7:12 AM, Gregg Gordon via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.<wbr class="">net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> What are his policies that resonate? The racist ones?<br class="">
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> On Monday, September 26, 2016 11:37 PM, C. G. Estabrook via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> Style: I think J. St. Clair of CounterPunch had it right: "If this was a fight, Trump probably would have won on points as the aggressor. But probably missed twice as many punches as he landed. Hillary was flat-footed, defending failed policies, offering little more than policy papers."<br class="">
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> Substance: Trump attacked Clinton's neoliberalism (trade pacts from NAFTA to TPP) and her neoconservatism (wars in MENA from Iraq to Libya and Syria). His are the policies that resonate with most Americans; the Clinton camp knows that - and are afraid.<br class="">
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> [Friends’ comments on style: “Trump won the early rounds and then it was a pathetic draw.” "My favorite moment was when she made a sales pitch for her book [which is not doing well at all].”] [Friends’ comment on substance: “Trump said that he was opposed to nuclear first strike, which Obama has refused to say.”]<br class="">
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