[quote=Hatfield][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]Parse the words carefully, amigo, because they mean things.
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Maybe you should understand your own words first, amigo.
Demagoguery: a strategy for gaining political power by appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public — typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalist or populist themes.
Gee, that sounds a lot more like the previous administration than the current one.
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Hatfield: Ah, I get it. Because Bush Co. was guilty of demagoguery, Obama can’t be. Wait, do I have that right? That’s your argument, then?
I notice you didn’t address any of the points made about his potential extremism, you simply grabbed for Godwin’s Law (“reductio ad Hitlerum”) where Bush = Hitler and everything else becomes relative.
Obama is a not a moderate and his actions prove it. He utters soothing words that seek to reassure us of his “light touch” regarding capitalism, while he and his cronies deploy sledgehammers to the structure. All the syrupy, anodyne little speeches cannot cover up what he’s done and he makes Bush look positively parsimonious when it comes to spending.
I’m very familiar with demagoguery: It’s now de rigeur in American politics, on the Left and the Right. “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”. It’s a pick ’em: Fascism versus Stalinism (complete with Five Year Plans and the “cult of personality”!).
