US Politics 2

Lex-Man wrote:If I had to get the police to arrest a six year old, I'd question my ability to teach.

Peter Crisp wrote:Given the US is supposed to be a Christian country

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:Given the US is supposed to be a Christian country

It's literally NOT supposed to be a Christian country.

And the hard right Christians are no more Christians than North Korea is democratic.

Peter Crisp wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:Given the US is supposed to be a Christian country

It's literally NOT supposed to be a Christian country.

And the hard right Christians are no more Christians than North Korea is democratic.

I know I know but Republicans are trying to make it so.
How dare you say North Korea isn't democratic they just really really love the people in charge is all just like we loved Tony Blair when he was our dear leader.

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:Given the US is supposed to be a Christian country

It's literally NOT supposed to be a Christian country.

And the hard right Christians are no more Christians than North Korea is democratic.

I know I know but Republicans are trying to make it so.
How dare you say North Korea isn't democratic they just really really love the people in charge is all just like we loved Tony Blair when he was our dear leader.

I hated Blair, but I would take him back RIGHT NOW compared to the last few PMs we’ve had.

Peter Crisp wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:Given the US is supposed to be a Christian country

It's literally NOT supposed to be a Christian country.

And the hard right Christians are no more Christians than North Korea is democratic.

I know I know but Republicans are trying to make it so.
How dare you say North Korea isn't democratic they just really really love the people in charge is all just like we loved Tony Blair when he was our dear leader.

I hated Blair, but I would take him back RIGHT NOW compared to the last few PMs we’ve had.

Yep, we almost had the best PM ever in Nick Clegg but he was only given the job of deputy PM.
Poverty, famine and want would all have been eradicated had he become PM but alas we chose wrong and we're never going to get First Contact with aliens now because they know we snubbed such a genius.

There’s a deep sorrow, for example, when he reflects on the voting habits of West Virginians. These people who were hit hardest by DuPont’s pollution, and the fallout from deregulated industry, were also the ones who gave Donald Trump the highest vote share of any state (68.5%) in the 2016 election. “I think it’s a grievance position,” he says. “I haven’t been convinced that the Trump voter is policy-motivated. There’s a lashing-out here, a cultural sense of retaliation against an elite which they feel minimised and overlooked by, and a professional class of experts and know-it-alls. It’s sad, and there seems to be something comparable in the UK: this anti-immigrant sensibility and feeling of contempt for an identified ‘other’ who can be used as scapegoats.

“Look, that’s always been available; it’s not like some political skill. People talk about Trump’s savviness. Even people who hate him will say, ‘Oh, but he can really read the culture. He really knows how to manipulate.’ No! You just go to the lowest common denominator. It’s easy! And it’s always been an option. What’s really frightening is how global it is.”

About the forthcoming US election he is sure of one thing: the need to fight at all costs. “What I can abide the least is when liberal friends of mine have this almost sophisticated defeatism about Trump.” He affects a languid drawl: “‘Oh yeah, of course he’s gonna win again.’ And I’m, like, ‘No. No. You cannot even say that. You can’t think that.’ It becomes in some ways collaborationist. You are letting it happen. You have to work and believe and stand up for every last thing.”

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Peter Crisp wrote:It will be interesting to see just how insane the claims of socialism and communism from Trump and his supporters get if Sanders is selected.

Sure, Sanders is more left wing than most but he's in no way a socialist or communist.

Photek wrote:

Peter Crisp wrote:It will be interesting to see just how insane the claims of socialism and communism from Trump and his supporters get if Sanders is selected.

Sure, Sanders is more left wing than most but he's in no way a socialist or communist.

Sanders is a Socialist though isn’t he?

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