But sometimes, I notice something so spectacularly un-selfaware, I can't help but marvel at what an utter nincompoop he is.
For that reason, I note that he was writing on the weekend, quoting an article about Lenin's rhetorical approach (my bold):
Lenin constantly recommended that people be shot “without pity” or “exterminated mercilessly” (Leszek Kołakowski wondered wryly what it would mean to exterminate people mercifully). “Exterminate” is a term used for vermin, and, long before the Nazis described Jews as Ungeziefer (vermin), Lenin routinely called for “the cleansing of Russia’s soil of all harmful insects, of scoundrels, fleas, bedbugs—the rich, and so on.”...This from a man who is completely and utterly convinced that Trump has the "right sentiment" and is the saviour of Western civilisation.
When Mensheviks objected to Lenin’s personal attacks, he replied frankly that his purpose was not to convince but to destroy his opponent. In work after work, Lenin does not offer arguments refuting other Social Democrats but brands them as “renegades” from Marxism. Marxists who disagreed with his naïve epistemology were “philosophic scum.” Object to his brutality and your arguments are “moralizing vomit.” …
Compulsive underlining, name calling, and personal invective hardly exhaust the ways in which Lenin’s prose assaults the reader.
Some quotes and links from here and there:
President Donald Trump on Tuesday equated migrants and refugees to the United States with vermin who will "pour into and infest our country."...
“The Never Trumper Republicans, though on respirators with not many left, are in certain ways worse and more dangerous for our Country than the Do Nothing Democrats. Watch out for them, they are human scum!”...
The 598 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List
All of Trump's ugly campaign rhetoric in one placeAnd today I see that retiree Rafe Champion has moved away from his routine utter gullibility in believing everything Jo Nova says about climate change to joining in to note:
Picking up the thread of Leninism that Steve described yesterday on the dehumanisation and destruction of opponents. This hit me when I saw the way the left dehumanised Pauline Hanson many years ago and more generally the Bush/Howard/Abbott/Trump derangement syndromes.He thinks Pauline Hanson - the anti immigration populist from way back - was the one being "dehumanised"??
Sinclair Davidson - you and your blog are sucking intelligence out of the universe. Congratulations on your contributions to stupidity.
Update: more from the world of utter un-selfawareness -
There has been nothing, absolutely nothing that has been done by Donald Trump that has been anything other than what those who voted for him expected him to do and has entirely been within the bounds of good policy.
Kates NEVER ever learns. I remember I first came across him when he claimed Japan had unpteen fiscal stimuli in the 90s.
ReplyDeleteThat was easily disproved by examining a speech by Adam Posen which actually showed that during the 90s Japan's economy rose or slowed depending on fiscal policy. The largest was a fiscal contraction.
did Kates admit his mistake. ( he had simply accepted some article without any checking whatsoever.)
No.
He simply said He did not not me to comment on any further articles he wrote via sinkers.
This says it all about both people.