05-11-2016, 11:55 AM
David Guyatt Wrote:R.K. Locke Wrote:Nobody is defending Trump. He's terrible. But this thread isn't about him, so I'm not going to continue to engage you on the subject.
Agreed.
It is a peculiarity of our time that America has reached the stage of its political "development" that the only two people standing in the race for power are both utterly reprehensible and crooked beyond belief.
There is clear evidence that Trump has organized crime connections - besides other seamy matters. Hilary meanwhile, is taking money from a foreign government where corrupt practises, cruelty, and the most abject form of misogyny are the pillars of life.
Way to go America. That's the best presidential candidates you've got for what you amusingly call "high office".
So let's tangle this poisoned recipe up some more shall we? I know just how. Let's fight each other over which of the damned candidate we root for.
However, to do that it is essential that we ignore the schizophrenic thinking that motivates this craziness in us --- one candidate is good, the other bad. The old Hollywood white hat versus the black hat. Simple is as simple does. Why change something that continues to work?
As I keep saying, common sense and intelligence has fled.
The world looks on in astonishment.
Well said.
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.â€
― Leo Tolstoy,
― Leo Tolstoy,

