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Trump under Leninist influence. How many really understand that?

"Hamilton also reminded us that a president cannot be a demagogue. Mr. Trump urged violence against protesters at his rallies during the campaign. He speaks of retribution against his critics. He has surrounded himself with advisers such as Stephen K. Bannon, who claims to be a Leninist and lauds villains and their thirst for power, including Darth Vader. “Rogue One,” the latest “Star Wars” installment, arrives later this month. I am not taking my children to see it to celebrate evil, but to show them that light can overcome it. "

To link a few with a Leninist reference, the last referring to Bannon's self-proclaimed Leninist status.

Susan Sarandon: A Privileged Fool and Extended interview with Susan Sarandon .. excerpt from the latter ..
SARANDON: Some people feel Donald Trump will bring the revolution
immediately if he gets in then things will really, you know explode.
HAYES: You`re saying the Leninist model of…
SARANDON: Some people feel that.
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David Horowitz's War on Rational Discourse
[...] Since, on the home front, it would be illegal to actually liquidate the enemy, Horowitz does not want us to take Lenin’s apocalyptic injunction too literally. Instead, he believes you should drown your political opponents in a steady stream of bullshit, emanating every day from newspapers, TV and radio programs, as well as lavishly funded smear sites and blogs. He also thinks you should go on college lecture circuits where you can use incendiary rhetoric to turn civilized venues into the Jerry Springer show, and then descend into fits of indignant self-pity when someone responds with a pie to your face.
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US role in Colombia peace: from fanning the war to ensuring peace
[...] Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos requested American involvement in the peace talks because the U.S. government had been deeply involved in the country's war. Over the past 16 years, Washington has spent US$10 billion on Colombia – much of it to boost the police and army in their fight against the rebels and the illegal drug trade.

Anticipating a frosty reception from the FARC's Marxist-Leninist commanders, Aronson tried a bit of humor. The guerrillas had invited Miss Universe – at the time the crown was held by a Colombian – to observe the peace talks. She declined just as Aronson, white-haired and 69, showed up in Havana.

”I looked them in eye and said: 'I know you were hoping for Miss Universe, but you're going to have to settle for me instead,'“ Aronson recalled.

Besides providing huge sums of aid to the Colombian army, the U.S. government has extradited several FARC leaders and indicted many more on drug-trafficking charges.

But Aronson told the FARC that if its members got out of the cocaine trade, put down their guns and formed a legal political party, the U.S. government would no longer target them.
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/09/26/us-role-in-colombia-peace-from-fanning-the-war-to-ensuring-peace [with comment]
.. 5th one down here .. http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=125410770

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Russia Today: why western cynics lap up Putin’s TV poison and
Trump and Putin: A Love Story .. excerpt from the 2nd one ,,
A liberal paper called Nezavisimaya Gazeta (The Independent Newspaper) published a leak of a new draft platform for the Communist Party. The draft rejected Marxist-Leninist ideology in favor of European-style social democracy, and it “unconditionally” condemned the “crimes” of the Stalin regime, which “broke and maimed the lives of millions of people, whole nations.” The draft had the endorsement of Mikhail Gorbachev, who was still the Party’s General Secretary, but of no more than a third of the Central Committee.

That same morning, Sovyetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia), the most prominent daily outlet for orthodox Communists and hardcore Russian nationalists, published a front-page call to arms called “Slovo k Narodu” (“A Word to the People”). The appeal, signed by leading figures in the military, the security apparatus, and the right-wing intelligentsia, accused Gorbachev and more radical reformers of leading the Soviet Union to ruin. Only if the “healthy forces” of state power united and acted swiftly could “humiliation” and “fratricidal war” be averted.

[One reason i'm posting this article in full this time is the clear abundance in echo of anti-Gorbachev Russian words and sentiments
in the trashing of Obama and Clinton and of America in Trump-talk. It's almost like the Russians wrote much of his material, yet no way
as the vocabulary here (see just below) far outshines anything out of Trump's mouth. The sentiments and tone though are no doubt an echo.]

“An enormous, unforeseen calamity has taken place,” it read. “The Motherland, our country, a great power, given to us by nature, with its glorious ancestors, is perishing, breaking apart, falling into darkness. And this collapse is taking place with our silent acquiescence and tolerance. Brothers, we are late in waking to this, late in observing the misery when our home is already aflame in every corner. We must extinguish this blaze not with water but with our tears and blood.”
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Stephen Bannon and Breitbart News, in Their Words
• “I’m a Leninist,” Mr. Bannon was quoted as saying by a writer for The Daily Beast who met him at a party in 2014. He later said he did not recall the conversation. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too,” the site quoted him as saying. “I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.”
.. links and much more .. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/stephen-bannon-breitbart-words.html?_r=1
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Trump's campaign victory in the America of today looks clearly to have led to a real accomplishment for much of Leninist method.

See also:

Racists Freak Out Over Black Santa At Mall
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America Has Never Been So Ripe for Tyranny
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