khagler Wrote:I don't post non sequiturs, so that question is itself a non sequitur.Quote:robkelk wrote:Why are you so fond of non sequiturs?Quote:khagler wrote:That's a remarkably low bar.
Why are you implying that winning the Cold War was a mere trifle?
Quote:khagler wrote:The best that we can hope for is that the next president won't be any more evil than his or her predecessor.
Considering how little evil the current officeholder has, I'd say that's where the bar is being set high.
Politicians are not by definition evil - if you think they are, then we have no common ground for a political discussion. The current office-holder is not evil, nor are his policies.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012