The hate mongering is there to blind the left to their own dirt. — wellwisher
I came increasingly to admire him and after watching him for the third time, I realized that he ought to win... — gurugeorge
You realized it was morally right for him to win. — praxis
To be clear, if someone says that a candidate for presidential office ought to win it appears to mean that they believe it’s morally right for them to win, or that the candidate will perform virtuously in that position. — praxis
No one in particular screwed up and de-industrialized the US. To some extent that happened because of the success of labor unions. — frank
... a global system of social engineering and corporate management — gurugeorge
And this is a coordinated, conscious undertaking? Or an uncoordinated trend? — frank
Yes, that is correct. And I am entirely serious. I believe the received wisdom about Trump among the "intelligentsia" is completely wrong, as wrong as wrong can be. The hysterical opposition to him is literally insane, a mind-virus. — gurugeorge
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