Oh I agree, Barry. Hillary made my skin crawl, and when she talked about her good friend Kissinger that was the end for me...except the alternative was so much worse. And Obama certainly was a thundering disappointment in many ways, and I'll never forgive him for airport body scanners, though truth be told most Americans are sheep abou…
Oh I agree, Barry. Hillary made my skin crawl, and when she talked about her good friend Kissinger that was the end for me...except the alternative was so much worse. And Obama certainly was a thundering disappointment in many ways, and I'll never forgive him for airport body scanners, though truth be told most Americans are sheep about accepting such chambers of horror. (But then they accepted the lies of the Iraq War, and shoved the whole thing under the rug when the results came out.) Look, there is a lot of money and power out there that makes political parties, half-baked excuses and posturing irrelevant, but sometimes the brutality goes beyond anything even remotely acceptable. That's what happened here. To get that high in government nobody's hands are clean of many things, but some are dirtier than others.
Of course it is a matter of degree, all this occurs along a spectrum of inhumanity, but the stage was set by the inhumanity of previous administration's including Obama/Clinton. This could not have happened without the policies and facilities they put in place. My point is that people like Thom Hartmann focus on the other party while holding the party he electioneers for virtually unaccountable. Without critical thinking there can be no pressure for change as that would come from us, and that is a far cry from the tenets of progressivism.
I've read Thom taking on the Democrats from time to time. It isn't the Democrats who are sliding us into fascism. One has to pick one's battles. I was deeply disappointed by both Clinton and Obama. That said, I was absolutely horrified and terrified of Trump and his cronies. The enemy of my enemy, in this case, is my friend - a flawed friend, but a friend.
Oh I agree, Barry. Hillary made my skin crawl, and when she talked about her good friend Kissinger that was the end for me...except the alternative was so much worse. And Obama certainly was a thundering disappointment in many ways, and I'll never forgive him for airport body scanners, though truth be told most Americans are sheep about accepting such chambers of horror. (But then they accepted the lies of the Iraq War, and shoved the whole thing under the rug when the results came out.) Look, there is a lot of money and power out there that makes political parties, half-baked excuses and posturing irrelevant, but sometimes the brutality goes beyond anything even remotely acceptable. That's what happened here. To get that high in government nobody's hands are clean of many things, but some are dirtier than others.
Of course it is a matter of degree, all this occurs along a spectrum of inhumanity, but the stage was set by the inhumanity of previous administration's including Obama/Clinton. This could not have happened without the policies and facilities they put in place. My point is that people like Thom Hartmann focus on the other party while holding the party he electioneers for virtually unaccountable. Without critical thinking there can be no pressure for change as that would come from us, and that is a far cry from the tenets of progressivism.
I've read Thom taking on the Democrats from time to time. It isn't the Democrats who are sliding us into fascism. One has to pick one's battles. I was deeply disappointed by both Clinton and Obama. That said, I was absolutely horrified and terrified of Trump and his cronies. The enemy of my enemy, in this case, is my friend - a flawed friend, but a friend.