<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>As Mort writes, we do not know what policies the Trump regime will pursue. From his past words and actions and his Cabinet and staff nominations--including many white supremacists and individuals connected to racism and a disregard for civil rights, science deniers, skeptics of public education, and the potential for graft and corruption--we have ample reason to be concerned about both his character and his policies. To ignore this man's despicable character, as evidenced by his racism and xenophobia and fascist tendencies and his choices in staffing the next administration (regime), is to condone it. </div><div><br></div><div>Debra<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 22, 2016, at 6:48 AM, "Carl G. Estabrook" <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8">Shouldn’t we pay attention to the policies the Trump administration will follow, more than to his obvious deficiencies of character?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Obama administration is. They’re so afraid Trump will reverse Obama's warmongering policies, they’re rushing to try to lock the new administration into their lethal practices.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Example: Obama has waved a restriction on providing shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles to the 'rebels’ in Syria (including al-Qaeda) - an obvious threat to the Russian air force (who, unlike the USAF, are in Syria legally). HRC wanted a no-fly zone, which she was told would lead to war with Russia; Obama is trying to use jihadists for that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The anti-war movement, of which AWARE is a part, should try to give an accurate account of the US government’s war-making, under this administration and the next. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 22, 2016, at 6:27 AM, Debra Schrishuhn <<a href="mailto:deb.pdamerica@gmail.com" class="">deb.pdamerica@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class="">Apparently, Trump's racism, xenophobia, and misogyny are true conservative values that you support? His intention to build a wall to keep brown people out of the US and his embrace of torture and extra-judicial killings don't bother you, Carl? His willingness to ignite trade wars and possibly hot wars with that military he plans to build up are OK? His lack of respect for fellow humans, his pathological tendency to lie or say whatever he thinks will advance him, get him attention -- these character traits are acceptable to you? Not to mention his graft, his bullying, his cruelty, his vindictiveness--these trait are acceptable in a US President or in any human being?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That you embrace these odious qualities in another says a great deal about you. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Debra<br class=""><br class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div class=""><br class="">On Dec 21, 2016, at 10:32 PM, "Carl G. Estabrook via Peace" <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">I have great respect for Richard Wolff, but I wish he’d button his shirt and give us a transcript.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’ve gotten too old to listen to lectures. —CGE<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 21, 2016, at 10:04 PM, Brussel, Morton K <<a href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu" class="">brussel@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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increase military spending perhaps by a factor of two, his favoring of “order” (police?) over civil rights, does not lead me to believe the confident remarks of the author who wrote the sentence cited below.This, even leaving aside the various contradictory
and ignorant statements he is prone to make.. But yes, he will be a traditionally conservative Republican in favoring the corporate world which he probably knows best and in diverse retrograde social issues. </div>
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<div class="">I highly recommend a recent YouTube presentation by economist Richard Wolf on the subject of Trumpenomics: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3D4dut6sPW52Q&d=DQMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=tfHzwZBcTLEveiewRiq0OdhFmfRmlvZjpIBS0AUJ2v0&m=jbq2REMoWTrUcPcW_Zw2dZeZmWCombhW2QUPPXFJd58&s=N1CKhzmKitDas355CVb225hfI4Az5HZWsARv6ms2Jes&e=" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dut6sPW52Q</a></div>
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<div class="">On Dec 21, 2016, at 9:09 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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"This is what Trump represents, not radicalism but conservatism in its truest sense, a return to calm after a storm. His policies are amongst the most moderate in recent history. He is anti-interventionist, opposed to the apparatuses that should have been forgotten
after the Cold War and his fiscal policies could easily be confused with those of a pre-Goldwater East Coast Republican.”
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