Does Donald Trump have any clue about world politics or is he

You mean like the nigger apologizing to cuba? and everyone else

fuck off niggerfaggot

where's the Trumpbot?

>>729038531
This is accurate.

>>729038685
proclaim thyself self-proclaimed

>>729038685
coming from a retarded millennial

>>729038466
you should seek help

>>729038466
maybe he's trying to keep you from embarrassing yourself.

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>>729038248
he's deranged, has dementia. also a narcissistic personality disorder. typical americunt

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He's a patsy, a fall guy.

He signs anything they set in front of him, and the Republicans will use that get everything their little black hearts ever desired- then they'll kick him to the curb and say it wasn't their fault.

>>729039998
tough guy on the internet

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Science is a liberal (jew) conspiracy to advance white genocide and usher in the era of the google super-intelligence that the inter-dimentional pedophile vampires will use to overthrow the righteous will of god #MAGA

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>>729038248
He is confused. And he is old. More, I cannot say.

>>729038248

very confused old man

so many flip flops on so many campaign promises already.

>nobody knew that presidenting could be so hard

>>729040059
I could feel your lip quivering as you typed that.

>>729040233
butthurt millennial detected.
don't worry you can explain it all to the secret service when they come to your door.

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>>729038531
He's a RINO. Just ask REAL Republicans like the Batista refugees Cruz and Rubio.

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>>729040350

hey, just saying what's true. he's had MAJOR flipflops on MAJOR campaign promises and rhetoric. Quite a few this week alone.

You SHOULD be incensed, but you don't give a fuck that he's gone back on all the things you voted for him for.

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GODDAMMIT GET OFF MY LAWN!

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Not Alzheimer's.

I'm noticing the trumpfaggery is much less enthusiastic now that the god-emperor has basically done a full 180 on every central campaign promise.

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Donny's MuriKKKa is welcoming.

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Donny's MuriKKKa is full of real nice people.

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>>729040387

fake quote

and I'm a card carrying liberal who voted for Hillary and hates Trump. But I also hate fake news and fake quotes. this is fake.

>truth matters

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Donny's followers are loyal.

>>729038248
he is a game changer

>>729040533
sure kid.
a millennials view on politics.
how retarded.

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>>729040852
How 'bout this one?

(And, frankly, I'm not convinced the 1998 quote wasn't accurate.)

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>>729040852
Remember, he did try to run for president back then.

>>729040783
must take some effort to come up with this shit.
can tell you have no social life.

>>729040857
And Donny's followers are as stupid as shit:
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>>729040981
millennials are so gullible

>>729041048
so?

>>729041095
>says the drumpf supporter who strayed from his safe space that is /pol/

Get a life, moran!

>>729038531

exactly correct

http://youtu.be/c9kI_rAFuKA?t=2m1s

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>>729041095
You don't recognize the provenance? Not surprised. Trumpy make stoopid people feel reel smaart!

>>729041192
sad

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FFS Trump bot, if you're going to spam with hot asian chicks, at least make them NAKED hot asian chicks

>>729041367
thinks this is a trump bot.

>ITT alt-right stifles debate or legitimate criticise with Asian women
>Oh, the irony

>>729040981
Proven fake you dumb nigger shill

>>729041451
It's about as intelligent as a bot, so same difference

>>729041453
being this dumb. you do know to pull your pants down before you shit, right kid.

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>>729041151
You mean those cretins who voted for Fearless Leader? Yes, it's like Disraeli said, each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. No one in the United Snakes today has enough education to read a McGuffey's Reader with comprehension. Try it yourself! I dare you.

>>729041471
>Proven fake you dumb nigger shill
evidence? Apart from the usual ad hominem proof usually levelled, that is.

>>729041578
yawn. you need to grow up kid.

>>729041556
>being this dumb.
Illustrate where my post was incorrect.

Oh, that's right, you can't. Better trot out some more ad hominems, then. Away you go.

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>>729041189
So such a comment about Republicans is consonant with his state of mind at the time. It is very likely that he said that. Everybody nowadays says "it was proofed to be fake" but nobody can point to anything more credible than Snopes. Like saying you read it in Wikipedia!

>>729040673
It's more due to the fact he won and we have moved on instead of dwelling on it like shitstained buttragers, faggot.

>>729041451

whatever. where's the nekkid chinks?

>>729041556
>kid
>>729041681
>kid
How's that particular ad hominem working for you? Getting the results you want?

It doesn't look so from here - perhaps it just serves to make you feel better about yourself.

>>729041704
so triggered. so immature.

>>729041681
Coward. You can't read to McGuffey's level.

>>729041781
yawn. no substance

>>729041809
exactly why you fail

>>729040981
>(And, frankly, I'm not convinced the 1998 quote wasn't accurate.)

absolutely did not appear in People Magazine. Ever. And hasn't been found anywhere else.

BTW, Fox News launched in 1996 and was nowhere what it is today. The quote just doesn't make any sense in 1998. Not credible in any way.

>truth matters

>>729041781
Takes the oath of office on two Bibles. One isn't good enough? Wanted gold-letter instead of red-letter?

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>Being this scared of someone elses opinion.

>>729041809
Nothing naked ever comes from that trumptard.

>>729038531
so true

>>729041823
from your reaction it would seem so.
ad hom is a weak minded defense.

>>729041988
One never finds what one does not want to find.

>>729041932
sorry not living in your bubble.

>>729042138
Floccinaucinihilipillification. Plain and simple.

>>729042053
you know kid they make you wear that helmet for a reason. you're not suppose to take it off.

>>729042205
still not a retard sorry. keep posting you may find someone who understands you.

>>729042254
Don't you have other threads to spam?

>>729042347
It's plain.
You're simple.

>>729042468
He only comes out for the anti-Drumpft threads. Like slime from the swamp.

>>729042468
it seems the retardation level in this thread just increased by ten percent.

>>729038531
Based. Red pilled. Underrated post

>>729042530
it would be nice if this post had any meaning.
took you a long tome to think this up and it failed so bad.
I feel sorry for your parents.

>>729042594
so do the children like yourself.
why is that?

>>729042635
Learn to defend your ideology with arguments and maybe your shilling will be more effective outside of mentally disabled rednecks (probably not).

Back to the question at hand.
Does Donald Trump have any clue about world politics or is he just a confused old man?

>>729038248
He just announced we are putting our forces on the Russian border.. With natural forces.... What does that tell you?

Donald J. Trump or Drumpft is an empty vessel willing to make a loud sound whenever someone strikes him the right way. He needs the adulation of many people. He has found he gets the most adulation from the least intelligent people, so he has adopted their prejudices.

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He's not very bright himself. He's mostly just stuffing. But his followers are ineffably stupid: you can see that for yourself here on this thread.

>>729042023
all the bot does is make Trump supporters look even more retarded

The purpose of Fearless Leader (and of Her Reptilian Majesty, were she to have "won" the "election") is to distract the masses from what is really going on in this world. Everything is a sham. Your money is mere valuta. But we're having so much fun defending our favorite politician that we don't notice.

The emptiest cans make the most noise.

The whole glory and greatness of Mr. Chamberlain consists in this: that if a man hits the right nail on the head nobody cares where he hits it to or what it does. They care about the noise of the hammer, not about the silent grip of the nail.
-- G. K. Chesterton, "The Mildness of the Yellow Press", Heretics (1905)

>>729038248
lost little niggers can't find >>>/pol/ ?

here you go niggerbaby.... >>>/pol/

>>729040979
Wow your post is amazing. You really posited a bulletproof retort there daddy o

>>729043597
Mah momma always sait, Random is as random does.

>>729040150
You realize the guy is surrounded by jews right?
Half of the people, if not, more than half, are jewish.

>>729042064
>Truth = weak
Only in Orwell - or Trump world

>>729041595
Evidence that your pic is real? You literally stole it from a meme website from the looks of it

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>>729040979
Notice how this anon has not provided a counter argument on the situation, but instead, resorts to name calling (because that's all this anon has left to resort to).
Take notes everyone, this is how you spot a trumpfag.

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Poor little niggerbabies can't find >>>/pol/

>>729038430
You sound like a deep thinker.

>>729044000
Long live Edward Bernays.

>>729044040
Except I didn't post a picture.

Linked to the wrong post? Or just plain stupid?

>>729043657
a millennial's shitty retort
how retarded.

The sonofabitch is functionally RETARDED. He's never succeeded at anything in his life. He has to marry immigrant women, and each of his weird children are missing chromosomes.

>>729041641
Give me facts. Don't tell me he's been the best pres ever, yet you don't provide any reasons why.
Another trumpfag who talks shit, but doesn't provide the proof.

>>729044184
Also we need to consider his connection to Roy Cohn. This was a guy who spent his whole life promoting anti-gay legislation and then died with AIDS. Closet faggots are like the walking dead.

No, you see when Obama was accusing Assad of using chemical weapons it was because Obama is a cuck warmonger democrat globalist shill cuck muslim marxist cuck, but this time it's Trump telling you that Assad used chemical weapons so you know it really happened. But Obama was still lying in 2013.

>>729041798
that makes no sense - he won because of the things he promised he would do, but now he doesn't have to do them because he won? You trumpfags are really reaching at this point.

>>729044375
“The President of the Universe holds no real power. His sole purpose is to take attention away from where the power truly exists….”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

As true for Obama as it is for Trump. That's why they both changed their tune so radically when they took office. The real guy in charge is probably called Rothschild.

Trump is a deplorable piece of shit, and so is anyone who defends them. I wish their rights to vote could be taken away. They aren't good enough to be able to vote.

>>729044640
Defends him I mean.

>>729041641
dude, I was reluctantly for Trump in the end given the alternative, but the man hasn't done shit. Now he's all for Nato, regime change in the middle east, and rattling his sabre at Russia. I thought I voted against hillary, but I got her anyway with trump.

>>729038430 bait is baity

>>729044761
No, Hillary never mocked the disabled, encouraged violence against protestors, admitted to incestuous thoughts about her daughter, admitted to thinking a 12-year old Paris Hilton was hot, had multiple bankruptcies and failed marriages as well as hosting a scam "college."

>>729045031
She would have though if she were trump

>>729040452
Lol Obama had 1 senate term

>>729045031
No, she only had sex with underage girls in the Caribbean and made eight billion dollars selling her influence in arms deals. Also invented the patented Clinton Double-Tap Suicide.

Generally speaking a man should not publicly take part in politics before he has reached the age of thirty, though, of course, exceptions must be made in the case of those who are naturally gifted with extraordinary political abilities. That at least is my opinion to-day. And the reason for it is that until he reaches his thirtieth year or thereabouts a man’s mental development will mostly consist in acquiring and sifting such knowledge as is necessary for the groundwork of a general platform from which he can examine the different political problems that arise from day to day and be able to adopt a definite attitude towards each. A man must first acquire a fund of general ideas and fit them together so as to form an organic structure of personal thought or outlook on life—a Weltanschauung. Then he will have that mental equipment without which he cannot form his own judgments on particular questions of the day, and he will have acquired those qualities that are necessary for consistency and steadfastness in the formation of political opinions. Such a man is now qualified, at least subjectively, to take his part in the political conduct of public affairs.

If these pre-requisite conditions are not fulfilled, and if a man should enter political life without this equipment, he will run a twofold risk. In the first place, he may find during the course of events that the stand which he originally took in regard to some essential question was wrong. He will now have to abandon his former position or else stick to it against his better knowledge and riper wisdom and after his reason and convictions have already proved it untenable. If he adopt the former line of action he will find himself in a difficult personal situation; because in giving up a position hitherto maintained he will appear inconsistent and will have no right to expect his followers to remain as loyal to his leadership as they were before. And, as regards the followers themselves, they may easily look upon their leader’s change of policy as showing a lack of judgment inherent in his character. Moreover, the change must cause in them a certain feeling of discomfiture vis-à-vis those whom the leader formerly opposed.

If he adopts the second alternative—which so very frequently happens to-day—then public pronouncements of the leader have no longer his personal persuasion to support them. And the more that is the case the defence of his cause will be all the more hollow and superficial. He now descends to the adoption of vulgar means in his defence. While he himself no longer dreams seriously of standing by his political protestations to the last—for no man will die in defence of something in which he does not believe—he makes increasing demands on his followers. Indeed, the greater be the measure of his own insincerity, the more unfortunate and inconsiderate become his claims on his party adherents. Finally, he throws aside the last vestiges of true leadership and begins to play politics. This means that he becomes one of those whose only consistency is their inconsistency, associated with overbearing insolence and oftentimes an artful mendacity developed to a shamelessly high degree.

>>729045209
And a real law degree.

Should such a person, to the misfortune of all decent people, succeed in becoming a parliamentary deputy it will be clear from the outset that for him the essence of political activity consists in a heroic struggle to keep permanent hold on this milk-bottle as a source of livelihood for himself and his family. The more his wife and children are dependent on him, the more stubbornly will he fight to maintain for himself the representation of his parliamentary constituency. For that reason any other person who gives evidence of political capacity is his personal enemy. In every new movement he will apprehend the possible beginning of his own downfall. And everyone who is a better man than himself will appear to him in the light of a menace.

I shall subsequently deal more fully with the problem to which this kind of parliamentary vermin give rise.

When a man has reached his thirtieth year he has still a great deal to learn. That is obvious. But henceforward what he learns will principally be an amplification of his basic ideas; it will be fitted in with them organically so as to fill up the framework of the fundamental Weltanschauung which he already possesses. What he learns anew will not imply the abandonment of principles already held, but rather a deeper knowledge of those principles. And thus his colleagues will never have the discomforting feeling that they have been hitherto falsely led by him. On the contrary, their confidence is increased when they perceive that their leader’s qualities are steadily developing along the lines of an organic growth which results from the constant assimilation of new ideas; so that the followers look upon this process as signifying an enrichment of the doctrines in which they themselves believe, in their eyes every such development is a new witness to the correctness of that whole body of opinion which has hitherto been held.

A leader who has to abandon the platform founded on his general principles, because he recognizes the foundation as false, can act with honour only when he declares his readiness to accept the final consequences of his erroneous views. In such a case he ought to refrain from taking public part in any further political activity. Having once gone astray on essential things he may possibly go astray a second time. But, anyhow, he has no right whatsoever to expect or demand that his fellow citizens should continue to give him their support.

How little such a line of conduct commends itself to our public leaders nowadays is proved by the general corruption prevalent among the cabal which at the present moment feels itself called to political leadership. In the whole cabal there is scarcely one who is properly equipped for this task.

Although in those days I used to give more time than most others to the consideration of political question, yet I carefully refrained from taking an open part in politics. Only to a small circle did I speak of those things which agitated my mind or were the cause of constant preoccupation for me. The habit of discussing matters within such a restricted group had many advantages in itself. Rather than talk at them, I learned to feel my way into the modes of thought and views of those men around me. Oftentimes such ways of thinking and such views were quite primitive. Thus I took every possible occasion to increase my knowledge of men.

Nowhere among the German people was the opportunity for making such a study so favourable as in Vienna.

In the old Danubian Monarchy political thought was wider in its range and had a richer variety of interests than in the Germany of that epoch—excepting certain parts of Prussia, Hamburg and the districts bordering on the North Sea. When I speak of Austria here I mean that part of the great Habsburg Empire which, by reason of its German population, furnished not only the historic basis for the formation of this State but whose population was for several centuries also the exclusive source of cultural life in that political system whose structure was so artificial. As time went on the stability of the Austrian State and the guarantee of its continued existence depended more and more on the maintenance of this germ-cell of that Habsburg Empire.

The hereditary imperial provinces constituted the heart of the Empire. And it was this heart that constantly sent the blood of life pulsating through the whole political and cultural system. Corresponding to the heart of the Empire, Vienna signified the brain and the will. At that time Vienna presented an appearance which made one think of her as an enthroned queen whose authoritative sway united the conglomeration of heterogenous nationalities that lived under the Habsburg sceptre. The radiant beauty of the capital city made one forget the sad symptoms of senile decay which the State manifested as a whole.

Though the Empire was internally rickety because of the terrific conflict going on between the various nationalities, the outside world—and Germany in particular—saw only that lovely picture of the city. The illusion was all the greater because at that time Vienna seemed to have risen to its highest pitch of splendour. Under a Mayor, who had the true stamp of administrative genius, the venerable residential City of the Emperors of the old Empire seemed to have the glory of its youth renewed. The last great German who sprang from the ranks of the people that had colonized the East Mark was not a ‘statesman’, in the official sense. This Dr. Luegar, however, in his rôle as Mayor of ‘the Imperial Capital and Residential City’, had achieved so much in almost all spheres of municipal activity, whether economic or cultural, that the heart of the whole Empire throbbed with renewed vigour. He thus proved himself a much greater statesman than the so-called ‘diplomats’ of that period.

The fact that this political system of heterogeneous races called Austria, finally broke down is no evidence whatsoever of political incapacity on the part of the German element in the old East Mark. The collapse was the inevitable result of an impossible situation. Ten million people cannot permanently hold together a State of fifty millions, composed of different and convicting nationalities, unless certain definite pre-requisite conditions are at hand while there is still time to avail of them.

The moron with the clothed ornmentals ran himself to the image limit and now has to spam with Tory propaganda.

The German-Austrian had very big ways of thinking. Accustomed to live in a great Empire, he had a keen sense of the obligations incumbent on him in such a situation. He was the only member of the Austrian State who looked beyond the borders of the narrow lands belonging to the Crown and took in all the frontiers of the Empire in the sweep of his mind. Indeed when destiny severed him from the common Fatherland he tried to master the tremendous task which was set before him as a consequence. This task was to maintain for the German-Austrians that patrimony which, through innumerable struggles, their ancestors had originally wrested from the East. It must be remembered that the German-Austrians could not put their undivided strength into this effort, because the hearts and minds of the best among them were constantly turning back towards their kinsfolk in the Motherland, so that only a fraction of their energy remained to be employed at home.

The mental horizon of the German-Austrian was comparatively broad. His commercial interests comprised almost every section of the heterogeneous Empire. The conduct of almost all important undertakings was in his hands. He provided the State, for the most part, with its leading technical experts and civil servants. He was responsible for carrying on the foreign trade of the country, as far as that sphere of activity was not under Jewish control, The German-Austrian exclusively represented the political cement that held the State together. His military duties carried him far beyond the narrow frontiers of his homeland. Though the recruit might join a regiment made up of the German element, the regiment itself might be stationed in Herzegovina as well as in Vienna or Galicia. The officers in the Habsburg armies were still Germans and so was the predominating element in the higher branches of the civil service. Art and science were in German hands. Apart from the new artistic trash, which might easily have been produced by a negro tribe, all genuine artistic inspiration came from the German section of the population. In music, architecture, sculpture and painting, Vienna abundantly supplied the entire Dual Monarchy. And the source never seemed to show signs of a possible exhaustion. Finally, it was the German element that determined the conduct of foreign policy, though a small number of Hungarians were also active in that field.

>>729045031
All of those things are reasons I was reluctant, but like a lot of people, I believed he would actually change shit and I felt it was the right time. Now it's obvious he really is just a con man

All efforts, however, to save the unity of the State were doomed to end in failure, because the essential pre-requisites were missing.
There was only one possible way to control and hold in check the centrifugal forces of the different and differing nationalities. This way was: to govern the Austrian State and organize it internally on the principle of centralization. In no other way imaginable could the existence of that State be assured.

Now and again there were lucid intervals in the higher ruling quarters when this truth was recognized. But it was soon forgotten again, or else deliberately ignored, because of the difficulties to be overcome in putting it into practice. Every project which aimed at giving the Empire a more federal shape was bound to be ineffective because there was no strong central authority which could exercise sufficient power within the State to hold the federal elements together. It must be remembered in this connection that conditions in Austria were quite different from those which characterized the German State as founded by Bismarck. Germany was faced with only one difficulty, which was that of transforming the purely political traditions, because throughout the whole of Bismarck’s Germany there was a common cultural basis. The German Empire contained only members of one and the same racial or national stock, with the exception of a few minor foreign fragments.

>>729044761
Next time vote for 3rd parties that haven't been chosen yet and come from below.

Demographic conditions in Austria were quite the reverse. With the exception of Hungary there was no political tradition, coming down from a great past, in any of the various affiliated countries. If there had been, time had either wiped out all traces of it, or at least, rendered them obscure. Moreover, this was the epoch when the principle of nationality began to be in ascendant; and that phenomenon awakened the national instincts in the various countries affiliated under the Habsburg sceptre. It was difficult to control the action of these newly awakened national forces; because, adjacent to the frontiers of the Dual Monarchy, new national States were springing up whose people were of the same or kindred racial stock as the respective nationalities that constituted the Habsburg Empire. These new States were able to exercise a greater influence than the German element.

Even Vienna could not hold out for a lengthy period in this conflict. When Budapest had developed into a metropolis a rival had grown up whose mission was, not to help in holding together the various divergent parts of the Empire, but rather to strengthen one part. Within a short time Prague followed the example of Budapest; and later on came Lemberg, Laibach and others. By raising these places which had formerly been provincial towns to the rank of national cities, rallying centres were provided for an independent cultural life. Through this the local national instincts acquired a spiritual foundation and therewith gained a more profound hold on the people. The time was bound to come when the particularist interests of those various countries would become stronger than their common imperial interests. Once that stage had been reached, Austria’s doom was sealed.

The course of this development was clearly perceptible since the death of Joseph II. Its rapidity depended on a number of factors, some of which had their source in the Monarchy itself; while others resulted from the position which the Empire had taken in foreign politics.

>>729045215
for fucks sake, repeating nonsense doesn't make it true. give it up you ridiculous faggot.

It was impossible to make anything like a successful effort for the permanent consolidation of the Austrian State unless a firm and persistent policy of centralization were put into force. Before everything else the principle should have been adopted that only one common language could be used as the official language of the State. Thus it would be possible to emphasize the formal unity of that imperial commonwealth. And thus the administration would have in its hands a technical instrument without which the State could not endure as a political unity. In the same way the school and other forms of education should have been used to inculcate a feeling of common citizenship. Such an objective could not be reached within ten or twenty years. The effort would have to be envisaged in terms of centuries; just as in all problems of colonization, steady perseverance is a far more important element than the output of energetic effort at the moment.

It goes without saying that in such circumstances the country must be governed and administered by strictly adhering to the principle of uniformity.

For me it was quite instructive to discover why this did not take place, or rather why it was not done. Those who were guilty of the omission must be held responsible for the break-up of the Habsburg Empire.

More than any other State, the existence of the old Austria depended on a strong and capable Government. The Habsburg Empire lacked ethnical uniformity, which constitutes the fundamental basis of a national State and will preserve the existence of such a State even though the ruling power should be grossly inefficient. When a State is composed of a homogeneous population, the natural inertia of such a population will hold the Stage together and maintain its existence through astonishingly long periods of misgovernment and maladministration. It may often seem as if the principle of life had died out in such a body-politic; but a time comes when the apparent corpse rises up and displays before the world an astonishing manifestation of its indestructible vitality.

But the situation is utterly different in a country where the population is not homogeneous, where there is no bond of common blood but only that of one ruling hand. Should the ruling hand show signs of weakness in such a State the result will not be to cause a kind of hibernation of the State but rather to awaken the individualist instincts which are slumbering in the ethnological groups. These instincts do not make themselves felt as long as these groups are dominated by a strong central will-to-govern. The danger which exists in these slumbering separatist instincts can be rendered more or less innocuous only through centuries of common education, common traditions and common interests. The younger such States are, the more their existence will depend on the ability and strength of the central government. If their foundation was due only to the work of a strong personality or a leader who is a man of genius, in many cases they will break up as soon as the founder disappears; because, though great, he stood alone. But even after centuries of a common education and experiences these separatist instincts I have spoken of are not always completely overcome. They may be only dormant and may suddenly awaken when the central government shows weakness and the force of a common education as well as the prestige of a common tradition prove unable to withstand the vital energies of separatist nationalities forging ahead towards the shaping of their own individual existence.

The failure to see the truth of all this constituted what may be called the tragic crime of the Habsburg rulers.
Only before the eyes of one Habsburg ruler, and that for the last time, did the hand of Destiny hold aloft the torch that threw light on the future of his country. But the torch was then extinguished for ever.

Joseph II, Roman Emperor of the German nation, was filled with a growing anxiety when he realized the fact that his House was removed to an outlying frontier of his Empire and that the time would soon be at hand when it would be overturned and engulfed in the whirlpool caused by that Babylon of nationalities, unless something was done at the eleventh hour to overcome the dire consequences resulting from the negligence of his ancestors. With superhuman energy this ‘Friend of Mankind’ made every possible effort to counteract the effects of the carelessness and thoughtlessness of his predecessors. Within one decade he strove to repair the damage that had been done through centuries. If Destiny had only granted him forty years for his labours, and if only two generations had carried on the work which he had started, the miracle might have been performed. But when he died, broken in body and spirit after ten years of rulership, his work sank with him into the grave and rests with him there in the Capucin Crypt, sleeping its eternal sleep, having never again showed signs of awakening.

His successors had neither the ability nor the will-power necessary for the task they had to face.
When the first signs of a new revolutionary epoch appeared in Europe they gradually scattered the fire throughout Austria. And when the fire began to glow steadily it was fed and fanned not by the social or political conditions but by forces that had their origin in the nationalist yearnings of the various ethnic groups.

The European revolutionary movement of 1848 primarily took the form of a class conflict in almost every other country, but in Austria it took the form of a new racial struggle. In so far as the German-Austrians there forgot the origins of the movement, or perhaps had failed to recognize them at the start and consequently took part in the revolutionary uprising, they sealed their own fate. For they thus helped to awaken the spirit of Western Democracy which, within a short while, shattered the foundations of their own existence.

The setting up of a representative parliamentary body, without insisting on the preliminary that only one language should be used in all public intercourse under the State, was the first great blow to the predominance of the German element in the Dual Monarchy. From that moment the State was also doomed to collapse sooner or later. All that followed was nothing but the historical liquidation of an Empire.
To watch that process of progressive disintegration was a tragic and at the same time an instructive experience. The execution of history’s decree was carried out in thousands of details. The fact that great numbers of people went about blindfolded amid the manifest signs of dissolution only proves that the gods had decreed the destruction of Austria.
I do not wish to dwell on details because that would lie outside the scope of this book. I want to treat in detail only those events which are typical among the causes that lead to the decline of nations and States and which are therefore of importance to our present age. Moreover, the study of these events helped to furnish the basis of my own political outlook.

Among the institutions which most clearly manifested unmistakable signs of decay, even to the weak-sighted Philistine, was that which, of all the institutions of State, ought to have been the most firmly founded—I mean the Parliament, or the Reichsrat (Imperial Council) as it was called in Austria.
The pattern for this corporate body was obviously that which existed in England, the land of classic democracy. The whole of that excellent organization was bodily transferred to Austria with as little alteration as possible.

As the Austrian counterpart to the British two-chamber system a Chamber of Deputies and a House of Lords (Herrenhaus) were established in Vienna. The Houses themselves, considered as buildings were somewhat different. When Barry built his palaces, or, as we say the Houses of Parliament, on the shore of the Thames, he could look to the history of the British Empire for the inspiration of his work. In that history he found sufficient material to fill and decorate the 1,200 niches, brackets, and pillars of his magnificent edifice. His statues and paintings made the House of Lords and the House of Commons temples dedicated to the glory of the nation.

>>729045435
yeah, one thing he was right about was that the system is totally fucked. too bad he's now part of the problem

>>729038430
False dichotomy detected.

>>729038248
I'd go with confused old man.

I mean he is the oldest president and acts exactly like a basic white grandpa with his archaic ways of going about things and he's a racist.