The difference between Bernie and Hillary boils down to this: Bernie Sanders is foolish and misguided on almost every issue. He's not an evil or corrupt person, he's just wrong most of the time.
In contrast, Hillary Clinton is a pathological liar and a political opportunist with no core principles other than her own ambition.
I don't have any personal ill-will towards a foolish but basically honest person. I have plenty of hatred to spare for manipulative crooks, however.
Outstanding synopsis !
I chatted with a young woman in a coffee shop a few weeks ago.
She was in her early 20s. A graduate student at NYU. Tattooed and heavily pierced. She was reading a book by Guy Debord, the Situationist (Marxist) philosopher.
I asked her what she thought of the book. She said she understood why it inspired many activists, but thought it was impractical and even dangerous in a way. A recipe for an authoritarian to take advantage of the power vacuum.
I agreed. I said that I had thought about the problem quite a bit.
We had a good conversation, and I recommended three books for her:
Human Scale, by Kirkpatrick Sale (a very unorthodox leftist)
Small is Beautiful, E.F. Schumacher
and the book I was reading,
The Way Back, by Frank Buckley
the last of which is practically Trump’s unacknowledged policy blueprint. Prof. Buckley is on the editorial board of The American Spectator and is also an adviser to the Trump campaign.
We traded emails. Let’s see if my young pupil follows through on her enthusiasm to learn more.