Bannon is a disruptor. I like disruptors. Our political system needs disruptors badly. IMHO, of course.
Are you of the opinion that all disruption is good?
That seems to be a very dangerous mindset.
Trump’s mind, and imagination, are not limited by the dull boundaries of truth! He is the Pornucopia, the Whore of Plenty, unfacts and not-truths tumble from his mouth like an avalanche of horseshit. By comparison, he is an aging Shanghai waterfront hooker, with more STD’s then fingers and toes, some of which have no names, while Obama is no better than he should be.
And which will you take home to meet Mother? Well, either one, really, pretty much the same, right?
So is a flu pandemic. Rootin’ for one of those too?
The belief that a system-wide collapse will benefit one’s side is not exclusive to the political right (“heighten the contradictions”) or even to the not-so-bright (“chaos is a ladder”), but I regard leaping to that conclusion without a lot of soul-searching as a reliable sign that someone has serious holes in their approach to ethics.
I mean, most of us can come up with situations where we might regard “collateral damage” and the like as a necessary evil, but I would hope that most of us would also not choose our courses of action based on *maximizing damage to the system, and including collateral damage toward that total.
*That’s why I’m not an anarchist, mostly.
The proof will be in the pudding – I think it’s too soon to tell whether his approach will continue to work. It’s similar to the postmodern/post-factual approach Putin et al have taken in Russia, and so far it’s worked well there.
In other words, he offers a lot more hat than cattle, but maybe a gigantic hat made of bigotry and reaction is enough to make up for the cattle deficit. In the near term, anyway?
(Note: it is entirely possible that Bannon is full of shit about his brilliance and that some factors totally apart from his strategy project his side to victory. I know there was a warning earlier about Hitler comparisons – I’m not comparing their ideologies, to be clear. But Hitler’s a classic example of someone who won power, despite failing to win at conventional democratic politics, through a series of bad actions by others: Hitler's Thirty Days to Power - Wikipedia)
You know who else was a disruptor of the political system?..: Bernie Sanders.
You like him?
Global nuclear war would be the biggest disruptor of all!
#ArmageddonStrong
The humans that rise up after the Great Globalist Disaster will be the rugged individualists who had the sense to amass and hoard stockpiles of Jim Bakker’s survivalist supplies. Then the monkeys begin to scrounge metal to make weapons…
Pock-faced Bannon, beltin’ back Tanqueray
Turned into the Schnook
(Ain’t he rosace-ays?)
As a disruptor? Very much so.
I will probably regret asking this, but… in what way is Bernie a disrupter? Bannon wants to destroy the system of governance that we have and kick out the Republican leaders in Congress. Not seeing Bernie trying to do something similar.
eh… mostly I was going for the joke, “You know who else was…”
I suppose by a not too big a stretch of imagination Bernie was a disruptor in the sense that he was technically an independent - some would call a “socialist” - running on a Dem ticket and giving a legacy democrat a run for her money.
That’s all I got.
Somehow I missed this somewhere along the way. He wants to what now?
There is not much evidence to support that claimed quote: Did Steve Bannon Describe Himself as a 'Leninist' Who Wants to Destroy the State? | Snopes.com
Fair enough. Did you read the entire Snopes article you quoted?
Yes. I get that he doesn’t like the “Republican establishment” (or bureaucracy or media) at all, but wanting to reduce the size and scope of government is quite a bit different than wanting to “destroy the system of governance that we have”, which, in my mind at least, denotes something like repealing the Constitution or cancelling elections. I believe Bannon wants the former, not the latter. Perhaps John Mace would like to clarify what he meant by the quote.