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The slogan of Trump supporters is:
OB
'Make America Great Again'
What is this Greatness and why does it need restoring?
OB
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The slogan of Trump supporters is:
'Make America Great Again'What is this Greatness and why does it need restoring?
OB
In other words, a rewind back to the 1950's. Those were good days!It symbolizes a return to manufacturing and innovative greatness and also our tradition of family.
For the kind of people who like to support Trump they were indeed the good old days. For others of us not so much, but we're not supposed to teach about that in school any more so it will soon be forgotten.In other words, a rewind back to the 1950's. Those were good days!
In other words, a rewind back to the 1950's. Those were good days!
It symbolizes a return to manufacturing and innovative greatness and also our tradition of family.
I am suspect about any movement that promises leading me to greatness whilst its leader wears a trucker's cap with a suit and a tie past the beltline. I mean if you can't master the basics about male fashion, what can you do for me really?![]()
It symbolizes a return to manufacturing and innovative greatness and also our tradition of family.
OK I'll be serious.
A return to manufacturing on any large scale is highly unlikely due to the obvious cost of labour problem. For American made product to sell it would need either:
or
- a public prepared to pay higher prices than they pay for a foreign made, but cheaper, product.
or
- government subsidy to offset the higher cost of the home built product. Since a subsidy would come out of taxes the public pays
The second or third option is possible but not on any big scale. Tariff protections also have a poor track record since they are a disincentive to local manufacturing to improve product and reduce prices.
- tariffs on imported product. Again the public pays through higher prices
Encouraging innovation requires industry subsidy. Possible, but again the taxpayer pays.
Old fashioned families? (see my comment about Leave It To Beaver). Reverse engineering social structure is near impossible.
Overall - these changes hardly qualify as 'Great'.
OB
I take it you are a defeatist. The cause is lost so we just give up?
There are millions of Americans who like life that way. Economic opportunity and strong support for the nuclear family has always worked. But what we are seeing is the devaluing of both
Is it defeatist to reject getting stuck in the past? Trying to bring back "the glory days" doesn't work any better for a country than it does for Ted Schmosby who peaked in high school and is still trying to recapture those moments thirty years later.I take it you are a defeatist. The cause is lost so we just give up?
There are millions of Americans who like life that way. Economic opportunity and strong support for the nuclear family has always worked. But what we are seeing is the devaluing of both.
As a one time suit and tie wearer, I have always been fascinated with Trump's tie length. I reached the conclusion that it's a deliberate attempt to create the illusion of height and minimise the obvious pot belly.
OB
Back to the time the conscience was well formed by Christian morals and values. The authority given it from above. The conscience formed in Christ's image bettered human life universally. Structures and institutions we take for granted now are the fruits of Christ in the Sanctuary. Jesus judging our deeds.... That's when human industry could find it's guide within. The authority given to conscience kept civil laws unnecessary. You could leave your bike in the front yard without a thought.
That is the mind that built government to serve families. That's the greatness that once was but now is not. It seemed to me that the beastly image was taking fire in the sanctuary when Trump was MAGA.
Is it defeatist to reject getting stuck in the past? Trying to bring back "the glory days" doesn't work any better for a country than it does for Ted Schmosby who peaked in high school and is still trying to recapture those moments thirty years later.
Rather, we should look forward and create a new golden age that is built within the reality of our own time.
The slogan of Trump supporters is:
'Make America Great Again'What is this Greatness and why does it need restoring?
OB
You don't understand what I wrote. Your response is typical anti-christian bias.In a separate thread I've talked about Christianese being incomprehensible to those of us brought up on a diet of plain English. This line from your response is a classic example of this incomprehensibility:
I thought it a bit cryptic but comprehensible in the context of my post.It seemed to me that the beastly image was taking fire in the sanctuary when Trump was MAGA.'
I thought it a bit cryptic but comprehensible in the context of my post.
Why not comment on the concepts and ideas I wrote about as ambiguous as they are.
and our leadership in the world and a return to loving our nation.It symbolizes a return to manufacturing and innovative greatness and also our tradition of family.