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    "Ignorant" is subsumed under "stupid".  But there is another axis, and that is pandering.  Trump may not be a very…
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    • "Communism" was never anything other than an allegory for progressive policy on industrial relations and race.  American politics is exclusively…
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    • A fire extinguisher can only be used once.  After that, it is empty and cannot be used again.   The…
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    • Nikki Haley is about .0667 of a Jeane Kirkpatrick.  And Trump is really only about three-fifths (see what I did…
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    • Be careful.  You are assigning a semantic to the passive act of not voting.  Tempting as it is to reason…
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    • Moore lost because his voters didn't turn out. So the ONLY question is, would they have turned out for a…
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    • ...the most famous example being Winston Churchill.  (Not the same party system, obviously, but "re-ratting", as they call it, is…
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    • The time to do this was 1980 and the target was Reagan.  It wasn't done.  It is now too late.
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    • Words do have connotations beside their literal meaning.   Decadence is not univalent: much depends upon what a polity decays…
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    • "...With Trump's supporters, I likewise see more complexity than that they're all just a rage-fueled mob seeking permission to hate…
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    • It doesn't matter what happened or why. ...what?! Here is why it doesn't matter. Is it explanatory?  Only from a…
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    • "...The GOP...belongs to the fascists and demagogues...." There is no clarity of thought here.  Perhaps this is because there is…
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    • "...Campaigns matter, and so do the candidates...." No, they don't.  Party label is the only thing that matters, at any…
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    • "...a real analysis of tonight's election results is going to take a little time to conduct and it will involve…
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    • It is, of course, irresponsible to say "this is broken" without, in the same breath, saying how to fix it.…
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    • NO.  Not according to their own benefit; according to other people's harm.  This is crucial.  It is no longer cui…
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    • My point, if I had one, was not about reasons why the law is broken.  I am (for better or…
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    • I wasn't talking about Flynn, or about anyone who breaks the law.  I was talking about people whose responsibility is…
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    • Let's focus that up a little. Laws don't matter if their enforcers [sometimes] don't care. Exactly why they [sometimes] don't…
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    • The Democrats have three problems.  Exactly these three -- which are not ranked in order of importance or priority, as…
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