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X “Dangerous.”
Y “Enough. Bastante. Basta. In any language, enough is now more than enough.”
X “Danger has caught fire. Those who kindled a small fire are fighting their fire with another fire. Fighting fire with fire is more likely to create a great conflagration than to contain the fury.”
Y “For a time, in his own twisted way, he challenged the war and Wall Street memes. Now he is at war with decency and civility. I have had enough, but his followers may have not gotten enough yet.”
. . .
X “Both the Donald and the Cruz are dangerous, very dangerous.”
Y “General elections are always about choosing between the lesser of two evils. Primaries and caucuses are not supposed to present such a bleak choice between evil and vile.”
. . .
Y “The current Senator and the former Senator are ratcheting up their spat. However, the undemocratic process of the Democratic Party machine dooms Sanders. Even their system is rigged.”
X “Everything is rigged. Sanders is proposing time-honored first-world public policies. The country cannot afford a rational and efficient single payer health care system and cannot afford not to adopt a rational and efficient single payer health care system. The country cannot afford a system of affordable education and cannot afford not to adopt a system of affordable education. The country cannot afford to adopt what it cannot afford not to adopt.”
Y “We could pay for it by paying for it the way we pay for war.”
. . .
[See “Physicians For A National Health Care Program” for some perspective on health insurance.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’” Isaac Asimov, “A Cult of Ignorance”, Newsweek, January 21, 1980.
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