Afternoon, PB. There's something rather interesting in that poll. The fortysomethings and the seventysomethings have a higher view, proportionally, of their youth decades of the 1960"s, and… (View Post)

Indeed. But it's important that the aspiration is towards eternity, even if the means is total cobblers. The modern Left could learn a bit from that, I think, in contrast to some of the recent t… (View Post)

Evening, PB. I very much agree with this point. Trump.got in partly because he had a mythos, as I talked about at the time. The left and left-of-centre urgently need to find a new mythos, as strong a… (View Post)

There's often a tendency to conflate fhe unknown, or the culturally different, together. Often the stronger that is, the stronger the psychological aspect. (View Post)

The only answer, or recourse, at this point is international isolation and sanctions, similar to the apartheid era's, on Netanyahu's government. (View Post)