{"id":6050,"date":"2016-03-28T16:35:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2016-03-28T16:35:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:35:20","slug":"trump-two-party-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2016\/03\/trump-two-party-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The US Two-Party System Made Donald Trump\u2019s Fascist Campaign Possible &#8211; Video by G. Stolyarov II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rationalbusinessjournal.rationalargumentator.com\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" alt=\"The New Renaissance Hat\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><big><big>G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n<\/big><\/big><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">******************************<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eCnAdfZFiXs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Were it not for the deeply fallacious and self-defeating mindset of voting for the \u201clesser evil\u201d, the rise of a demagogue such as Trump would have been impossible in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Though it may be alleged that economic fascism has characterized America\u2019s \u201cmixed economy\u201d since at least the New Deal of the 1930s, the resurgence of <em>cultural fascism<\/em> would have been unthinkable even during the 2012 Presidential Election. Yet it is here in the form of Donald Trump\u2019s campaign. Mr. Stolyarov considers what made possible this frightening resurgence of the worst tendencies in American politics. He concludes that the biggest underlying facilitator of Trump\u2019s frightening rise is the very two-party political system in the United States and the \u201clesser evil\u201d trap it engenders in the minds of many voters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2016\/03\/two-party-system-trump\/\">The US Two-Party System Made Donald Trump\u2019s Fascist Campaign Possible<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Article by G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quebecoislibre.org\/12\/121115-6.html\">Why Republicans Deserved a Crushing Defeat in the 2012 Presidential Election<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Article by G. Stolyarov II &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/ct-black-students-trump-rally-20160301-story.html\">Black students &#8216;outraged&#8217; after being escorted from Trump rally<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Article by Lindsey Bever &#8211; The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/13\/trump-rally-protesting\/#EQcvK8f0qkqC\">Technically, it is illegal to protest inside of Trump rallies<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Article by Colin Daileda &#8211; Mashable &#8211;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quebecoislibre.org\/12\/121015-6.html\">Rejecting the Purveyors of Pull: The Lessons of <em>Atlas Shrugged: Part II<\/em><\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Article by G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2iefXdC794I\">Trump is Phony, a Fraud<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Speech by Mitt Romney &#8211; PBS NewsHour<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/hating-the-establishment-is-not-the-same-as-supporting-liberty\/\">Hating the Establishment Is Not the Same as Supporting Liberty<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Article by Jeffrey Tucker<br \/>\n&#8211; \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2012\/11\/on-moral-responsibility\/\">On Moral Responsibility in General and in the Context of Voting<\/a>\u201d &#8211; Article by G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2015\/09\/importance-of-istvans-campaign\/\">The Importance of Zoltan Istvan\u2019s Transhumanist Presidential Campaign<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Article by G. Stolyarov II<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Stolyarov II ****************************** Were it not for the deeply fallacious and self-defeating mindset of voting for the \u201clesser evil\u201d, the rise of a demagogue such as Trump would have been impossible in the United States. Though it may be alleged that economic fascism has characterized America\u2019s \u201cmixed economy\u201d since at least the New Deal of the 1930s, the resurgence of cultural fascism would have been unthinkable even during the 2012 Presidential Election. Yet it is here in the form&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2016\/03\/trump-two-party-video\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4228,85,481,254,260,4220,69,364,711,40,3736,4613,4612,1483,4536,74,4611,73,4614,1500,1729,2257,4488,1244,25,2896,843,1344],"class_list":["post-6050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-brokered-convention","tag-campaign","tag-convention","tag-delegates","tag-donald-trump","tag-election","tag-establishment","tag-fascism","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-illiberalism","tag-john-kasich","tag-lesser-evil","tag-marco-rubio","tag-mitt-romney","tag-political-party","tag-president","tag-primaries","tag-principle","tag-protest","tag-protesters","tag-ted-cruz","tag-two-party-system","tag-united-states","tag-video","tag-vote","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6050\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}