MSNBC and Bernie Sanders coverage

Jones own lawyer said he was playing a character.And there’s no coup against Trump. If he falls it will be his own dirty dealings that bring him down. And that is a way away, still.

People that are "full of it" almost always truly believe the nonsense they market.

do you think I am being paranoid?I just worry about the course our nation is going. I am too old to suffer

I'm not sure paranoid is the proper term. But you do seem to prefer fantasy over reality.

When Jones got sued for some of the BS he invents/relays and passes off as news, he has testified in court that he was just playing a character. Apparently, he is also playing you.Who really gives a crap if Jones believes something? Does that belief make it likely that he is correct? Are you just swallowing yet another brand of snake oil?Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

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do you think I am being paranoid?

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I just worry about the course our nation is going. I am too old to suffer

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If you mean the drift to the far right, then Jones is all for that. It’s his bread and butter. You should be far more worried about the people who believe Jones than the possibility he might be right about something.

I used to believe that the populists were a bunch of largely uneducated folks couched in fear and a yearning for the glory days of the past. Lately, however...I am beginning to question whether or not the so-called educated elitists really know whats best for the world and whether or not they may actually be the villains in the grand scheme.I'm not saying that I've sold out to the populists, but I question the result.(I always did like Obama, however...despite the rhetoric against him...)

There you go buying the koolaid again.What is a Populist?

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I used to believe that the populists were a bunch of largely uneducated folks couched in fear and a yearning for the glory days of the past. Lately, however...I am beginning to question whether or not the so-called educated elitists really know whats best for the world and whether or not they may actually be the villains in the grand scheme

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Who are the real villains ? The people investigating a corrup president or the people who call for show trials and executions for imagined crimes ?I really don’t see that as a very sensible question.

Trump and his ilk have co-opted/perverted the word "populist". They're not promoting the interests of ordinary people. They're exploiting the baser instincts of ordinary people (especially fear) to promote their own interests.

OK, I know the term. I had to review what it meant in context of what I have been told. The dictionary is quite succinct:
populist
1.
a member or adherent of a political party seeking to represent the interests of ordinary people.
adjective
1.
relating to a populist or populists.
"a populist leader"
The Atlantic had a good article on the term in the context of Trump and today's movement, as ringo reiterated: What Is A Populist?

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Populists are dividers, not uniters, Mudde told me. They split society into two homogeneous and antagonistic groups: the pure people on the one end and the corrupt elite on the other, and say they’re guided by the will of the people. The United States is what political scientists call a liberal democracy, a system based on pluralismon the idea that you have different groups with different interests and values, which are all legitimate, Mudde explained. Populists, in contrast, are not pluralist. They consider just one groupwhatever they mean by the peoplelegitimate.

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Jones does exactly that. He seeks to divide us and them. Granted, many of the moderate/liberals here at EvC portray the far right values as antithetical to reason, which is why I explored the rightwing mindset. It did appeal to me, playing on my fears of losing my God-given spot in society...which is why I started this rant.Edited by Phat, : No reason given.

was my definition incomplete?

So much for the accusations of a liberal media. Perhaps there is a hint of a conspiracy in that the major networks only cover what Jones would say was a globalist agenda---Hillary having been a PC inner circle "liberal" in name only. They market the "products" and people whom they wish to advance. Or am I again being paranoid?

The point is to take the next step and understand that YOU are the Privileged Elitist.What you want is to maintain your Privileged status against the Common Man. Keep them Common Man down. Not MY job. Not MY neighborhood.

Do you know what a Globalist Agenda is?Edited by jar, : appalin spallin