(08-12-2016 06:15 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  I forget - who was Jefferson's ghost writer on the Declaration of Independence?

It must have been those damn liberal history books that removed the part about Jefferson openly antagonizing disabled people and advocating for a foreign power we are at odds with to release damaging evidence against his political opponents...

I get that Trump's status as a political outsider is appealing, that makes sense. But the adjectives political outsider and brash, egotistical, thin-skinned reactionary do not have to be correlated. Trump knows how to get media coverage, but that skill does not mean he is necessarily fit to run the US, and IMO, the tactics he has used to garner the media attention suggest he is not.

I'll also quibble with Bernie assertion. I don't think he sold out so much as understood politics and believed it was more important to concede defeat and actually change things by influencing the party platform than sulk back home with nothing to show for it in the end. I am happy he did not become the Tea Party of the left because politics, like life, requires compromise.