Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee who became a Tea Party sensation and a favorite of grass-roots conservatives, will endorse Donald J. Trump in Iowa on Tuesday, officials with his campaign confirmed. The endorsement provides Mr. Trump with a potentially significant boost just 13 days before the state’s caucuses.
“I’m proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for president,” Ms. Palin said in a statement provided by his campaign.
Evangelicals love Sarah, and her endorsement might indicate that many have already become fed up enough with the machine to even turn on Cruz, simply based on his officially being a member of the Republican Party. Now that she has endorsed Donald officially, it will go a long way to put Donald in the driver’s seat, especially as the signs of K continue to tickle amygdalae, and the economy begins to show the signs of strain.
Who would think that four years after Mitt Romney, the most anti-establishment candidate out there two years ago, Cruz, would be losing to an even more anti-establishment candidate, and everyone else would be so far back as to hopeless.
Trump’s candidacy is historic in this sense. Four years ago, when Romney blew everything, a large segment of the Republican party talked about starting a third party, to get away from the establishment, but it was just talk. Nobody could actually have had any effect, and that would never have gone anywhere – until Donald Trump showed up on the scene. Overnight, it is almost as if the third party, instead of being created, simply hijacked the Republican party, and marginalized the establishment. If you look back on it, it is almost as if it was a magic act.
It is really an extraordinary display of leadership, well worth a detailed historical examination some day.
This is fascinating.
Your r/K selection theory and as it applies to the political arena certainly gives pause for thought and reflection.
You can take this to the religious arena as well as I put forward the argument the state is simply another religion (however with the state you are forced to pay, and you are (generally) free not to pay for a particular sect. You stated r tends to end up in the Liberal arena, and K ends up in the Conservative arena (depending on whose definitions of Conservative you use)
I would say:
r = Catholic derivatives (Guilt, confession, high reproductive rates, pray)
K = Protestant derivatives (God helps those who helps themselves, work ethic, )
and
r = New Testament (hippy love fest, gentle god)
K = Old Testament (angry commanding god)
It would be interesting to look back on the religions of the world and examine the environment(s) at the time and see if they were birthed from a r or K environment.
I can see it in my industry as well. I work in Information Technology. I have worked for established corporations and startups. I even worked in a company was a startup and was bought by a large corporation.
In the startup, K’s are everywhere. They have to be, because the startup cannot bear the costs of too many not-billable personnel. When I joined it, there was an open-door policy between myself and the CEO. I could knock and walk in. People were driven, highly productive, and dedicated to the success of the company. When the large corporation bought us out, there was a *MASSIVE* ‘r’ type invasion where process overtook nimbleness and innovation. All of a sudden we had departments not related to being billable and value driven and politics rather than production became part of the environment. I didn’t have access to the new CEO, being shielded by layers of bureaucracy.
What happened? There was a ‘K’ exodus out of the company. Within a year, all of the original personnel left. We often joked how it was the most amount of money ever paid for 30 laptops because at the end of the year, there was no-one behind them.
Keep up the good work and thanks!
I think comparing the OT and NT to the contexts in which they arose would be a better indicator rather than comparing them to each other directly. The OT is clearly K, with Sodom and Gomorrah being the best examples of r in the bible.
I guess the NT is debatable but do r’s really understand love? The Pharisees were the r figures in the NT, at least imo. They spent their lives finding loopholes in the Law of Moses and lessening the severity of punishment replacing some penalties of death with mere fines. Christianity had strong out grouping as well, with verses discussing who to remove from churches. And we also have to consider the nature of life in Rome at the time compared to Christianity. Christianity was an apocalyptic religion at the start, meaning it was filled with people who hated the life on earth (bringing us verses such as friends of the earth are enemies of God) and wanted it to end and all of its injustices with it.
Brilliant. You do see r and K everywhere.
And Thank you for the words of support.
_Four years ago, when Romney blew everything, a large segment of the Republican party talked about starting a third party, to get away from the establishment, but it was just talk._
That’s funny. A third party? I thought the Americans would be happy if they had a second party. 🙂