[johniegrad]

We're going to take things away from you

The arrogance of this type of attitude is why people like this should never be elected.

[nathanbedford]

Forty four years ago we were assigned in an honors program to review The Áfluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith whose main thesis was that individuals, easily manipulated by wicked advertisers to spend their money on foolish things like giant fins on cars, were therefore clearly too stupid to spend their own money in their own interests. Not to worry, Galbraith and his elitists were handy to do that for us.

I was the only student in the seminar to challenge this view and, even in 1961, I was well and truly bludgeoned about the head and shoulders by an aroused faculty for my defalcation.

Still ahead lay the near triumph of communism and other excrescences of Marxism and the just in time rescue by Reagan and Thatcher. These were dark days indeed and we had not yet even Goldwater to carry the banner. There was no ready assets to hand for an instinctive if young conservative to seize hold of to maintain balance much less to hurl against the foe. Now the same shibboleths are being rehearsed yet again by a sixties Marxist who never has been able to completely cosmeticize her dark soul.

No worries this time, this dog ain't huntin' no more.

[gathersnomoss]

I believe that Hillary Clinton would get ~50% of the vote if she ran. This nation is in a crises.