Our governments are mediocre in the extreme, but they are not comprised of fascists and/or kleptocrats. (View Post)

We shall just have to bear that hardship as best we can. (View Post)

Trump has sown the wind. Now, let him reap the whirlwind. (View Post)

You’re a paranoid rich man, who’s persuaded himself he lives in the worst of times. My grandparents faced much worse, with a lot more fortitude. (View Post)

That’s the problem. So many people on the right have persuaded themselves that living in a flawed, but free and prosperous democracy, is the worst fate that can befall a nation. It used to be the far… (View Post)