Steve Bannon Interview

I like everything I just read

ETA: Focusing on job creation and infrastructure puts all of the social politics on the back burners. Meaning, it basically kills the democrat party

He said the word "nationalist." raciss, raciss, raciss, raciss!

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“Like [Andrew] Jackson’s populism,

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Wasn't that the dude who killed all the injuns?

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Wasn't that the dude who killed all the injuns?


Killed the central bank and paid off the public debt, too.

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So, Win, Win, Win? I like it!

actually investments in the infrastructure will setup america for a brighter future. If we can give Musk 5 billion for vaporware, we can give the same + a lot more for bridges, roads, etc.

It was personal for Jackson against the indians. He spent his life fighting against them. Look up Fort Mims massacre. Not at all excusing what he did, but as I said he had an axe to grind, was extremely tough and vindictive.

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ETA: Focusing on job creation and infrastructure puts all of the social politics on the back burners.

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Which, if successful, kills the divisive politics. Good way to bring people back together and will work if people are going back to work.

Trump is the reincarnation of Tiberius Gracchus.

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I had to Google him. He sounded like a militaristic Socialist?

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Not quite.

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Rome's internal political situation was not peaceful. In the last hundred years, there had been several wars. Since legionaries were required to serve in a complete campaign, no matter how long it was, soldiers often left their farms in the hands of wives and children. Small farms in this situation often went bankrupt and were bought up by the wealthy upper class, forming huge private estates.

Furthermore, some lands ended up being taken by the state in war, both in Italy and elsewhere. After the war was over, much of this conquered land would then be sold to or rented to various members of the populace. Much of this land was given to only a few farmers who then had large amounts of land that were more profitable than the smaller farms. The farmers with large farms had their land worked by slaves and did not do the work themselves, unlike landowners with smaller farms.

According to Plutarch, "when Tiberius on his way to Numantia passed through Etruria and found the country almost depopulated and its husbandmen and shepherds imported barbarian slaves, he first conceived the policy which was to be the source of countless ills to himself and to his brother."

When the soldiers returned from the legions, they had nowhere to go, so they went to Rome to join the mob of thousands of unemployed who roamed the city. As only men who owned property were allowed to enroll in the army, the number of men eligible for army duty was therefore shrinking; and hence the military power of Rome. Plutarch noted, "Then the poor, who had been ejected from their land, no longer showed themselves eager for military service, and neglected the bringing up of children, so that soon all Italy was conscious of a dearth of freemen, and was filled with gangs of foreign slaves, by whose aid the rich cultivated their estates, from which they had driven away the free citizens."

In 133 BC Tiberius was elected tribune of the people. Soon he started to legislate on the matter of the homeless legionaries. Speaking before a crowd at the Rostra, Tiberius said, "The wild beasts that roam over Italy have their dens, each has a place of repose and refuge. But the men who fight and die for Italy enjoy nothing but the air and light; without house or home they wander about with their wives and children."

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It will be as exciting as the 1930s

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Hm...candidate running on a nationalistic platform promising economic redemption. Seems familiar.