53 responses to “Explaining Social Democracy Versus Democratic Socialism”

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   Vincent Haynes

   March 11, 2016 at 9:34 pm

   
   

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   ac

   March 12, 2016 at 6:33 am

   
   

   last night thousands of protestors closed down the Trump planned meeting in Chicago chanting slogans against trump immigration and racist policies , Trumps rebuttal to the demonstration was to use his bully pulpit to state that the demonstration had nothing to do with his statements on immigration and racism but was due to jobs losses in Chicago

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   Well Well & Consequences

   March 12, 2016 at 5:20 pm

   
   

   This is called an unbridled, unbiased and oh so expertly analyzed opinion. Jones (Not Ronald) nailed it to the wall.

   “OPINION
   Ricky Jones | Why I love Donald Trump

   Ricky L. Jones
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   I am watching with great amusement and satisfaction as political pundits and GOP stalwarts struggle with the reality that is Donald Trump. Michigan, Mississippi and Hawaii are among his latest conquests. He is now poised to march through Florida, Illinois, Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio.

   I, for one, am not surprised by Trump’s success. While others were still mired in doubt, I wrote last August that his candidacy should be taken seriously because he “is riding the same wave of willful ignorance and lowered expectations that elected George W. Bush twice and cast the ‘well-read’ Sarah Palin as a viable vice-presidential candidate.”

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   Ricky Jones, professor and chair, University of Louisville’s Pan-African Studies Department
   To their detriment, more “respectable” Republican candidates initially ignored or poked fun at Trump. He dispatched them one by one. Like dominoes they fell – Jindal, Walker, Huckabee, Graham, Fiorina, Paul, Christie, Bush, Carson and a host of others. Only Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich remain, and they’re hanging by a thread.
   Trump is a far cry from the man the Huffington Post pledged to only cover as entertainment last year because its editors couldn’t fathom regarding him as a “real political figure.” I wonder what they think now that he is on the precipice of securing the Republican’s nomination.

   I love Trump, but not for the same reasons David Duke pulls him to his bosom. I love Trump because with every win he exposes the GOP and America for what they are. Trump doesn’t vote for himself – Americans do. Republicans and the country both need to deal with that truth.
   His ascendency has created a psychotic alternate universe where the GOP has plummeted to unexplored levels of mendacity or is so delusional that it should be dissolved. It is incredible that the party affixes racism or racial insensitivity to Trump when those ills have been at the core of its ideology. The party that has housed everyone from post-1948 Strom Thurmond to Jeff Sessions is on shaky ground when it attempts to pave a high road on race. It is, in fact, the place where racists who haven’t abandoned traditional politics altogether reside.

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   The GOP claims Trump is divisive and preys on people’s fears. They are correct but incomplete.
   To be sure, Trump taps into some of America’s nastiest cleavages, but these divisions have long been at the heart of Republican rhetoric and success. Yes, Trump offers simplistic, unattainable solutions to the unwashed, but he didn’t start that practice. The GOP has raced to the bottom and played upon the lack of understanding of the less intelligent, less educated, and disengaged for decades.
   The GOP criticizes, hates and even fears Trump, but he is their creation. They are the party of Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin peeking at Russia from her porch. They are the defenders of the Confederate flag, misogyny, anti-civil rights initiatives, warmongering, homophobia, nativism and anti-intellectualism.

   They now turn their noses up in disgust as Trump’s supporters bully and attack people at rallies. They take umbrage as white supremacists declare allegiance to him. They cry foul, disavow them all, cast them out and brand them as “Trump’s people.” In reality, these are the Republicans’ people. The GOP created space for figures like them and Trump to exist and thrive. They are the worst among us and I love Trump for exposing it.
   It is the Republicans, not just Trump, who have tapped into a particular brand of meanness, closed-mindedness, racial animus and xenophobia always festering just beneath the surface of our country’s skin. Trump has just scratched hard and drawn blood for all to see. He is the GOP’s id made manifest without a superego to temper it. He is their Frankenstein’s monster running wild.
   He is saying nothing Republicans haven’t said repeatedly. He simply does not have the skill or care to veil it in the coded language of the political class. In many ways, Trump is less reprehensible than the disingenuous bigwigs claiming he is a threat to their party.
   No one should be shocked that Trump winning the Republican nomination is no longer just possible, but probable. It makes absolute sense. We are a country that celebrates the Kardashians, Snooki and Mob Wives. Couple that with GOP exploitation of that vacuousness and we have the witch’s brew that is Trump and his acolytes.

   So, yes – like the “poorly educated” I love Donald Trump, but for different reasons. Let him ride high, expose the GOP and America and lay their depravity low. Maybe we’ll grow from it.”

   Ricky L. Jones is the chair of the Pan-African Studies Department at the University of Louisville. He is the author of “Black Haze” and “What’s Wrong with Obamamania,” both available from SUNY Press. Follow him on Twitter @DrRickyLJones.

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