[Mr. K]

...and you think ‘the government’ can do that?????

You have not been here very long

[mairdie]

I think SOMEONE has to. Yes, government can go astray. But it’s like one extreme of a pendulum. When the motion stops - when the pendulum reaches its limit - then the pendulum is pulled toward the other extreme, passing momentarily through the middle. What I want, of course, is Plato’s Philosopher King. And, maybe, Trump is that force pulling the pendulum back from the extreme that’s been liberalism. And, yes, that other force will eventually wrest control from him. But I believe in Trump and I believe in the theory of America. We aren’t going to become a South American disaster. And it will never be calm. And we will spend no time in the middle.

I’ve been here long enough.

I used to write little notes on Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket notes in the laundry room. And I heard him describe his view of America that I disagreed fundamentally with. I never doubted my right to my own opinion then.

Or now.