No.354217
Face it: American prosperity thrived after WWII, as we became the most powerful, successful, influential and respected nation on Earth. The communists who have hijacked our country don't like that kind of progress. They have cloaked themselves under a "progressive" veil only to later be exposed as the tyrants they really are. And they don't like the American people waking up.
If Donald Trump wants to make America great again, as his oft-repeated slogan promises, then that leads to the question: When was the last time America was actually great?
Trump has an answer. In an interview with The New York Times published Saturday, the real estate mogul was asked when the country last reached the GOP front-runner's lofty ideal – as a reporter asked, when do "you think the United States last had the right balance, either in terms of defense footprint or in terms of trade?"
The answer, Trump explained, was during periods of military and industrial expansion at the onset of the 20th century and again in the years after World War II.
"If you look back, it really was, there was a period of time when we were developing at the turn of the century which was a pretty wild time for this country and pretty wild in terms of building that machine, that machine was really based on entrepreneurship," he told the Times.
Trump also pointed to the "late '40s and '50s," a time when, he said, "we were not pushed around, we were respected by everybody, we had just won a war, we were pretty much doing what we had to do."
"As much as I liked Ronald Reagan, he started NAFTA," Trump said. "Now Clinton really was the one that — NAFTA has been a disaster for our country, O.K., and Clinton is the one as you know that got it done, but it was conceived even before Clinton, but you could say that maybe those people didn't want done what was ultimately signed because it was changed a lot by the time it got finalized. But NAFTA has been a disaster for our country."
CNN: http://archive.is/mDiqi
NYT: http://archive.is/zPkqI
No.354222
>>354217
Statist drone rhetoric thread?
A lot of bluff and bluster to say nothing at all, the perfect recipe for mainstream American popularity.
No.354223
>WWII ends in the 1940s
>not even ten years later, the Red Scare starts when Communists start subverting Western culture
>the result in the hippy generation in the 60s with 'free love' and fake feminism starting to undermine the family unit as a way to take power away from men
Also he's right. NAFTA was proto-globalism and only serves to dick over individual countries in favor of banks and corporations.
No.354227
BRING BACK AMERICANA!
TRUMP 2016
No.354228
Man i sure do love america i hope we can get a fucking statesman tierd of these bullshit ass 2 faced ass niggers running our country we need someone who means what they say and we need to realise what they are saying.
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Also we need to kill all the weeabboos ok fuck china and jaonowisnese culture we.
Trump over hillary
No.354231
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WE JUST WANT OUR COUNTRY BACK!
IF YOU WANT A SLICE OF AMERICAN PIE VOTE TRUMP 2016!
No.354236
>postwar liberal consensus
>Government played strong role in society
>unions powerful and accepted by management and markets
you seem to be confused OP
No.354237
>>354235
um, Dick, it's not necessary or wise to fill out the e-mail field
welcome to 8chan (´・ω・`)
No.354238
>>354222
But could you honestly want Hillary Clinton over anyone else?
No.354248
The best time for america was from the late eighteen hundreds to the mid 20s
In the fifties/sixties we were a strong govt cuck nation that bent over backwards to unions.
No.354264
>>354248
>The best time for america was from the late eighteen hundreds to the mid 20s
True, during the industrial revolution. But a similar phenomenon occurred after WWII as well, it was just a shorter time span. That is referred to as "Americana" and we were a very strong, civilized and industrialized nation during that era as well where the prosperity was respected and sought after. Not at all today.
>In the fifties/sixties we were a strong govt cuck nation that bent over backwards to unions.
There was corruption, but it was managed and not out-of-control like it is today. Nothing like it is today. Second of all, most people didn't have to go to college to get a decent job. People often graduated high school and found a job, worked and were able to make a living - unions or no unions. The communists infiltrated this culture in the 60s and managed to take over the US educational system, and used social programming to influence people into drugs and other nefarious activities. Everything started going downhill from there on.
No.354270
>>354217
so hes going to be called racist again
progressives like to point out the social problems of the past to "defeat" your economic arguments about the past
No.354272
>>354270
>muh PR
and this is why you lose, cuckservative
No.354277
>>354264
>implying we aren't living in a golden age of neoreactionaryism
No.354288
>>354272
Now now, cucks in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
No.354294
>>354222
>lot of bluff and bluster to say nothing at all, the pe…
Nothing screams "I'm a pseudo-intellectual" like a pompous response filled with prolixity. Bonus: you added a picture of Foucault who, like you, could not write a coherent sentence to save his fucking life.
Stop all this bullshit, for your own sake, everyone thinks you are a joke.
No.354301
>postwar economic boom
>low unemployment rates
>no college degree required for a livable wage
The economy is usually better for the winning country after a war, what exactly is wrong with his statement? You think he's gonna start another war with Germany or Japan to kick start the economy or something? Is it because of that was before the civil rights movement and the Korean War?
No.354311
>>354277
I don't know what you mean by that. The reactions you see right now largely have to do with economic problems domestically. Don't be surprised when the public reacts with anger or disgust after they have been screwed over. Don't be surprised either when nationalism starts to rise as our country faces the threat of cultural extinction (amnesty/open borders). For ever action there is an equal yet opposite reaction.
The public is sick of communism, now they are flocking back to capitalism once again.
No.354325
>>354294
actually they just think it's a post on the internet
what does prolixy mean precious?
No.354327
>>354217
the first thing that can be done to "get our country back" is to undo all of the damage caused by Reagan and his followers.
No.354329
>>354311
Capitalism is flawed. We've known this for a hundred years yet we try relying on it constantly. Only traditional economies, ruled over by a strong leader will get us out of this degeneracy.
No.354341
>>354327
Good luck with undoing the policies of the first God emperor of the USA, you filthy commie faget.
No.354346
>>354325
>prolixity
>excessive, wordy
>what is google
No.354352
>>354329
>Only traditional economies, ruled over by a strong leader will get us out of this degeneracy.
That didn't work under Stalin or Chavez and it won't work now. What we need is free-market capitalism where businesses have to compete in the markets to attract consumers, where consumers have options and consumption is 100% voluntary and where people are allowed to file bankruptcy if they fail, (legally) default on debts and start from fresh again. That's true capitalism.
No.354390
>>354248
>late 1800s
>best time
If you were one of the tycoons, sure, otherwise you were one of the serfs during that corporate feudalism hell. Thank god for Ted Roosevelt.
No.354414
life isnt real this is just a dream, reject everything and then use psychic warfare to destroy the elite. If that doesn't work we will just destroy this entire fake universe and create a new one. This place is a fucking disaster. I feel like I am on fire 24/7 and there is no sign that anything is going to chance unless more people start using the mantras "nothing is real" or "life is a dream" and then "willing" a reasonable world into reality. It's possible faggots. Either start doing this or enjoy this fucking hell that people like the Clintons and Bushes get to enjoy the fuck out of.
No.354561
>>354217
bump for actual news.
No.354761
No.354800
>>354222
>Starts slinging shit about Statist drones
>posts pic of a leading intellectual who supported both the Chinese Communist and Iranian Theocratic Revolutions
You dun goofed. Consequences will never be the same
No.354816
>>354222
Your so full of shit, just like Foucault. Crawl back to whatever sewers you came out of cockroach
No.354858
The Right is taking over.
No.354875
>>354270
I wouldn't be surprised, that's the general neoliberal criticism of the '50s (backed up by shitlibs)
>Yeah, okay, maybe that was the height of prosperity for the American middle-class, but black people had to sit at the back of buses while women were practically chained to the stove!
Though the NYT piece in >>354217 was the standard Trump doesn't understand the NUANCED COMPLEXITIES of modern foreign policy! I'm not going to explain why we still need military bases in Germany or why Saudi Arabia is best ally, just nod your head and agree with me okay?
No.354876
>>354270
I wouldn't be surprised, that's the general neoliberal criticism of the '50s (backed up by shitlibs)
>Yeah, okay, maybe that was the height of prosperity for the American middle-class, but black people had to sit at the back of buses while women were practically chained to the stove!
Though the NYT piece in >>354217 was the standard Trump doesn't understand the NUANCED COMPLEXITIES of modern foreign policy! I'm not going to explain why we still need military bases in Germany or why Saudi Arabia is best ally, just nod your head and gree with me okay?
No.355183
No.355235
>>354217
So all we need is a another industrial boom and ripe frontier, two world wars to flatten every other economy, build a military-industrial complex with staggering debt spending, create new markets to satisfy post war output, encourage citizens to neurotically consume (on credit) everything from TV dinners to lawn mowers for their unsustainable suburban lifestyles, and follow leftist monetary policy?
>MFW Trump is gonna be less fiscally responsible than Reagan & FDR combined.
No.355255
>>354217
Soo… Trump want a New Deal then?
No.355262
/leftypol/ on suicide watch!
No.355267
>>354217
So in other words he wants a new generation of boomers who will fuck up everything again?
No.355274
>>355235
We don't need another war, Trump doesn't want the US military to be fighting anyone except for bombing a bunch of ape-shit Islamic terrorist nutcases out of their misery. So war won't be a problem.
As far as another industrial boom? Yes! We do need it, its long overdue. So many of our jobs have been outsourced, and Trump is the only candidate that has proposed solutions to this problem.
Building a military-industrial complex with staggering debt spending? Already happened under Clinton, Bush and Obama. Much of the staggering debt was wasted on failed bureaucracies and other failed programs / operations / conquests. Trump has also spoken about this, and how we waste so much of our money. He knows its a problem that can be fixed.
Unsustainable suburban lifestyles? Excuse me, but this is our culture and the middle class is what has made America so great. An opportunity to be independent and to enjoy prosperity, to be able to make a living and live comfortably. Taking that away from America would be like taking away our basic freedoms.
>>355267
Baby boomers didn't fuck anything up, your commie ideologies did.
No.355277
>tfw no Andrew Jackson president
No.355298
>>355235
We should nuke the middle east then take all the oil.
No.355309
>>355274
>Baby boomers didn't fuck anything up
gif related.
No.355351
>>355309
Communist ideology and brainwashing has fucked up America, not your ancestors. Of-course you were likely indoctrinated by some communist university and told to blame your parents and some "patriarchy" for everything wrong in society. They'll tell you we need change everything to make society "better" … well? Where has that gotten us over the last 40 fucking years?
No.355382
Hotwheels fix your shit
>>355351
Nigger, I'm a National Socialist turned Anarcho-Christian. Stop making up excuses by attacking me to ignore the point that boomers fucked shit up.
Having grown up in relative "peace-time" with America on top of their game, baby boomers encouraged the growth of a massive welfare state and even more massive military industrial complex that they knew they couldn't afford in the first place, but assumed their children could pay the expenses of. Before we even get into the rights violations that were allowed through by congressmen and presidents that the Boomer generation approved of, the amount of entitlement from their generation was then transferred to Millenials and is causing the issues we have now.
Literally if there is a "greatest generation," it's the pre-1917 generation of Americans.
No.355413
>>354858
Fucking finally. I'm tired of all the fucking nigger worship in this country.
No.355950
>>355274
You sound like you're a troll under 30 and you've been hanging with Reagan democrats who can't into economics. Please try to take it down a few notches and realize adults are ITT talking about shit we actually understand.
https://youtu.be/3ABg0Vnpo50
No.355952
>>355382
You make a fair argument, but I still don't like to blame the baby boomers for all the problems we see today. There are many reasons for all the problems, but the one I like to point out is the communist infiltration of America's educational system over the last 40 years. Today so many jobs mandate you have a college degree when, in fact, long ago most people didn't even need a degree to get a decent job. Today the schools have become literal indoctrination centers which rip students off and make them debt slaves. Most baby boomers never saw this coming and many today are appalled at what has transpired. Because of this educational system, and the fact universities have become so influential in today's society, we now see fully indoctrinated radical leftist commies taking over all the positions within our society; within our government, our military, contracting, local politics, legislative and judicial systems, within the financial sector, within law enforcement, etc. All over, there is a growing trend of communists taking over our society as the good 'ol fellows retire, quite and some even laid off.
We cannot ignore the impact of this communist coup over our educational system - it runs too deep. We could blame our parents all we want, but the real perpetrators are the leftist scum that infiltrated our society (via a very big necessary institution) and hijacked the society by controlling the outcome of who can do what, how and where.
As for the industrial revolution, many people claim the 20s were the best of times. Others disagree and say the 50s, and some say the early 1900s or before. I think it all depends who you were at those times really, all were good eras. We have good eras, we had bad eras, and now we are in a very ugly era.
No.361518
>>354222
Holy shit I made a lot of Trumpcucks mad as fuck.
No.361519
>>355351
>it's le gommies, da state tol me day was ebul
No.361533
>>361518
>le only pretending to be redarded meme goes here
No.361665
No.361691
Trump has proven to be the only sane candidate. Every other would likely continue all the failed, third world policies we see today.
Vote Trump, or vote for an even greater third world dump.
No.361732
>>355267
Seems to me like a lot of boomers and gen x-ers want us to keep fucking up. Why else would they have filled millenials heads with so much bullshit. Then again, Hanlon's razor, paired with Larkin's "This Be The Verse," is probably a better explanation.
It seems like humanity's fuck-ups are self-perpetuating, seeing as how each generation seems to inevitably fuck up future generations. Sometimes it seems like it's not even worth it to try and save humanity.
No.361741
>>361533
What the fuck are you on about, faggot?
I was gloating about how BTFO they are, not claiming I was "trolling". Fucking kids.
No.361878
>>354227
This.
>>354294
>prolixity
Cool, had to look that one up.
No.362690
>>354217
Bumping for Trump!
No.363006
>>354222
>But NAFTA has been a disaster for our country.
Ditching NAFTA would be one of the best possible outcomes for the American economy.
No.363094
There's little doubt the economic boom after WWII was one of these points. Maybe getting rid of NAFTA and building the wall will maga.
No.363123
Yes goys! Make our vassal state great again!
Trump 2016!
No.363147
I wonder what kind of revolution The Donald's will be. Will it be a good one? A bad one? Even one at all?
No.363157
>The communists who have hijacked our country don't like that kind of progress. They have cloaked themselves under a "progressive" veil only to later be exposed as the tyrants they really are. And they don't like the American people waking up.
YURI
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No.363347
>>363157
Pardon my ignorance anon, who's Yuri?
No.363385
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No.363394
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>we became the most powerful, successful, influential and respected nation on Earth.
No.363439
>>354301
>The economy is usually better for the winning country after a war
This. Pretty sure we're going to have an actual war as opposed to the Obongo lip-service against ISIS once The Donald becomes President Trump. Not sure if that would be on the scale of something sufficient to kickstart the economy on it's own however.
No.363470
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No.363495
I would say America seemed pretty great in the mid '90s when the Internet was becoming a real thing for the first time. But, then there was the bubble so what do I know. I guess after WWII was probably the height of America's status globally.
No.363586
The Moonshot program was surely a highpoint for America, despite all the other bullshit going on. The entire world stopped and watched what was happening then.
No.363601
Not very politic of him to claim a year prior to the civil rights era. I'm sure they'll roast him over that.
No.363605
The Jews never stopped fighting WWII. They've been poisoning every society that could stand in their way. Post-war America was very strong until the poison set in.
No.363611
>>363601
>tfw won't matter though…
No.363621
No.363656
>>363347
Only anime can save you from the Marxist destabilization.
No.363683
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No.363710
>>354217
Now it is undeniable that Trump is Racist.
The 1950's were marred with racism, segregration and oppression. Blacks didn't even have civil rights back then, how can you now see this man is evil?
No.363717
>>363710
Well the article specifically refers to economics and geopolitics, not social movements and the racial atmosphere. It's not just the white families that did better back then, either.
America had higher employment rates for black men, better high school graduation rates, and male literacy rates sometimes even higher than whites in the 1940s and 1950s.
No.363719
>>355235
No, to restore the ethnic mix to what it was then.
No.363722
>>363710
Found the female.
No, you'll have to make do with white-sized dicks.
No.363854
>>363710
The '50s and '60s were one of the high points of the country. They were married to innovation, economic boom, and unprecedented achievement. Can you not see that this man is awesome?
No.363880
>>363710
>The 1950's were marred with racism
And it was one of the most prosperous times our nation has ever seen. Coincidence?
No.363963
>tfw Trump will make America great again.
No.363985
>>363854
This is why communist thugs hate the 50s and 60s. Innovation scares them. Economic booms terrify them. Achievement? They flee in ecstatic horror back to the communes!
No.364040
>>363985
By Communist thugs, I presume you mean the leadership and operatives behind the 'progressives' what a laughable abuse of the word lel in America. If so, then yeah I'd probably agree in large part with that assessment anon.
MAGA
No.366917
>>361741
Oh, so you're actually retarded?
Good to know.
No.376268
we can only hope this country can be saved, but don't hold your breath, be prepared because we might have already passed the point of no return