@timrichards I don’t know it was in Aus, but I feel like there was a time where there was less (or no) retail sales of alcohol. If you wanted a drink, you went to the bar. There was no entertainment at home. No tv.
Even if people drank at the same clip, they can do so at home and watch a thousand channels. They don’t need Cliff at the bar to keep them entertained.
I think I understand the idol worship from the deplorables and I understand the Useful Idiot theory from those who simply want power, but I have a hard time reconciling otherwise intelligent and informed people who appear to genuinely like Trump. It’s all got to be an act, right?
I mean everyone can see that he’s a morally depraved, addled tyrant who is a perpetual failure, right?
Just look at the things Tucker Carlson said off the record. He’s just a meal ticket.
@mastodonmigration Point being, that even the left can ignore uncomfortable truths for what they perceive as the greater good. I’m furious about our support of Israel but I’m not going to choose Hitler in response. It doesn’t make any sense.
@tantramar I often think about the fact that recorded history is what, a few thousand years old? We like to think two or three hundred years ago was ancient history. That’s just three old guys back to back to back. It’s nothing. If we don’t destroy ourselves first, this is merely the infancy.
@tantramar I’m flummoxed by the amount of support he’s gotten in polls, but I think actual votes are going to be a very different ball game.
We have a misconception that everyone who votes for a third party would have otherwise voted for one of the other two candidates, as if voting were mandatory. It’s not, not in the US anyway. They might have skipped the presidential box or stayed home.
Elections are won or lost depending on who shows up. It’s not messaging and it’s not candidates.
I am, and probably always will be, in awe of The New York Times, and so a devotee. Even when I disagree with what seems to be their many editorial blunders, it’s an institution I can’t bear to see degraded and defamed. I remain an apologist, no matter the haranguing, because I want them to be better. I am not prepared to cut them loose and put my faith in your blog to tell me what’s going on. They remain the paper of record, for better or worse.