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Bernie was sincere but couldn't have done much under your system. Under a parliamentary system, if you win on your platform you have a mandate to do it. Bernie provided a better person and policies than the others. He was true to himself and his country. But money would have taken him down. I never thought of him as having a chance. So neither upset or peeved. You're going a little insincere for bern. Didn't Trump win on the tiniest of budgets? Before the 'race' was over, didn't bern get himself a not too shabby beach house? Just like the rest of the proletariat, eh? He's running again, is free crumbs a better policy? What if four years of Trump has kids dreaming of employers competing for their skills?
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Issues? Clear repudiation? The rest of the world is aghast, grateful half of the American electorate wouldn't vote for him. Irrelevant. The majority of the World lives in the utopia of totalitarianism. The path of which this Country has been on the last eight years. Why on earth would you think that what statists like you think is important to the average American? America is exceptional, and that exceptionalism will be considerably prolonged by this election.
I prefer wood to plastic, leather to nylon, waxed cotton to Gore-Tex, and split bamboo to graphite.
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Geo, Melania is a fine looking woman. While I was brought up to value character over looks, I wouldn't discount her looks or remind members of how her boorish husband insulted women on their appearances ---"Can you imagine voting for that face?" and the wife of another candidate.
Sophie Trudeau is a fine looking woman, too, admired for intellectual merit as media personality on our English- and French-language networks. I'm glad, not mad, you have a pretty First Lady, or prettier. Mom told me early on that it's as easy to marry a woman of intellect as one without one. Margaret must have told the same to Justin.
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Issues? Clear repudiation? The rest of the world is aghast, grateful half of the American electorate wouldn't vote for him. I'm guessing all the people who voted yes to Brexit understand why people voted for Trump. I'm guessing the women in Germany and Sweden who can no longer walk safely in their own towns due to sexual harassment by "economic refugees" understand why people voted for Trump. King, like so many Canadians, you put way too much stock in what other people think. So here's what other people think.....more people from more countries would like to immigrate to the US than any other country on earth. Even with Trump as President.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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"Exceptionalism" is a myth, Ken. What's so unusual of US development toward freedom and liberty? Many countries, including Canada, developed good governance without the social scars and burdens America carries today.
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To many of those people coming to our shores, Hell would be an improvement.
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"Exceptionalism" is a myth, Ken. What's so unusual of US development toward freedom and liberty? Many countries, including Canada, developed good governance without the social scars and burdens America carries today. Interesting opinion. No doubt the Soviet Union was "Exceptional" according to your views. Once again, your opinion is irrelevant. As is ultimately, Canada.
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....the social scars and burdens America carries today. Is that three days of scars and burdens, or a legacy of scars and burdens?
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Unlike US and USSR, Canada didn't have a revolution or set out to transform the world. It developed without slavery, a bloody civil war, Wild West. Countries with the highest standards of living did similarly. The US and USSR are exceptional in their revolutionary origins. The notion of US as best country in the world is an anachronism, a myth, out of whack with reality.
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Before Trump, Americans said their governance had failed them, money ruled in Washington, there were no longer tribunes advocating in their interests. Dysfunction reigned, of crises meeting federal payrolls, paying the military, racial violence, a continuum of massacres, despairing generations, inequality widening, are a legacy of social scars evolved from a loss of community, publics at each others' throats, exacerbated by Trump's campaign of demeaning, hatred and bigotry.
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