Tell Me Once More Progressives That Hillary and the WLB are "The Same"

[Rev. Rye]

Trump is certainly worse, but Hillary did herself no favours by talking about blowing up embassies and things like that. Made people think she was completely bat shit insane, and that's on her.

Really, Ambrose Bierce once said "RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of tomorrow injected into the affairs of toDAY." I honestly get the feeling that, in a European country, she'd probably be the second coming of Thatcher (perhaps Angela Merkel, if you're being charitable).

When it comes to foreign policy, she's basically Dubya with a power cut; is anti-immigration (if less virulently so than Trump); has a history of flip-flopping on issues like gay rights, the war on drugs, and criminal justice; and, while she talks a good game about taking power from the corporations, when it asked to choose between the needs of the people and the desires of corporations, the people should expect to be disappointed.

But that said, the Republicans since the Obama administration have brought the discussion to regressive depths the likes of which haven't been seen since Jim Crow.

And Trump is making it worse because he's basically Nikolai Stavrogin from Dostoevsky's Demons with an orange wig and a bad tan, and most disturbingly, real political power. And it's like he's hell-bent on turning America into a playground for evil.

"One must really be a great man to be able to make a stand even against common sense."

"Reason never had the power to define good and evil."