[Wallace T.]

There are several sets of rules in the Western democracies. For violations of national security: in the case of the high ranking, you skate (Clinton); in the case of the not so high ranking, you are convicted of a misdemeanor (Petraeus), for the lowly, you receive long prison terms (Pollard, Manning). On so-called hate crimes, one standard (guilt before conviction) applies to whites, Christians, males, and heterosexuals, another standard (innocence assumed) for all others.

I must wonder if even Trump can clean things up in a seriously broken legislative, judicial, and administrative system that has been built up since the New Deal. He is, humanly speaking, our main opportunity for reform.

[HiTech RedNeck]

God has been replaced by wherever the will of the rabble seems to want to go.

There was always room for yielding, but it used to be to convictions of honor and good sense, or to put it more specifically, to God (of the loving, gracious kind, not the crabbed kind of Islam and some self-willed Christian followings). That would result in something constructive.

We have got to get back to that kind of God. The bible always presented it, but our own crabbed minds did not want to see anything that would open them up. The result is that minds that knew they needed to be opened, let themselves be opened by any old garbage and we call that “liberalism” today.