11-09-2016, 08:11 PM
(11-09-2016, 07:57 PM)Danilynn Wrote: Nah that music was fitting in 2012. Today we need ragtime jazz or swing.
It depends upon your politics. Please!
Can you really excuse a crotch-grabbing rake? A businessman who stiffs subcontractors? Someone who dredges gutter racism that most of us thought outmoded?
Donald Trump is three things that history shows can destroy democracy -- a demagogue, a sociopath, and a kleptocrat. One is enough, and even Hitler was only two of the three. Trump is all three.
All in all, I now wish that Mitt Romney had won in 2012. We would thus be spared the four-year nightmare that we now face. I wish that I could emigrate today.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.