tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post7043604795025640759..comments2024-03-07T14:43:21.888-08:00Comments on Whatever I want to write about: Two old men killed Lady LibertySriram Khéhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06907731254833435446noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-41648904483083780172017-02-12T21:57:51.610-08:002017-02-12T21:57:51.610-08:00I agree with almost everything ... except the part...I agree with almost everything ... except the part where you write that "the loony left is worse" than the trump right. I disagree. I will take the loony left any day over trump and whatever his "ism" is.<br />Because, the loony left absolutely recognizes the equality of all humans, whatever their religion, skin color, sexual orientation, language ... the loony left of Sanders or Corbyn is inclusive. The trump crowd and the rabid right practices and preaches discrimination. <br />When you write that loony left is worse, I fear you are looking at only the implications for what their policies mean for the stock market. That is a remarkably narrow slice of life.<br /><br />News reports suggest that Germany too is increasingly in trouble. Merkel is being squeezed by the ultra-right and the ultra-left, exactly like how Clinton was squeezed out :(<br />Sriram Khéhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06724218458246880137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27946614.post-72236882759265543542017-02-12T17:42:39.259-08:002017-02-12T17:42:39.259-08:00Completely agree. Sanders was the mirror image of ...Completely agree. Sanders was the mirror image of Trump - a decent, honourable, but nevertheless dangerous version.<br /><br />I am actually of the view that the loony left is even more dangerous than the rabid right. Both are awful, but if you were to dispassionately consider the long term harm that either can do, the loony left is worse.<br /><br />The trend in the world of extreme positions is a worrying one. Its happening everywhere. Jeremy Corbyn is the British version of Sanders. The left would rather see Labour becoming extinct than dilute their pristine version of extremism. The Socialists in France have put up exactly a similar guy as their Presidential candidate.<br /><br />World over positions are hardening and civil discourse, tolerance and willingness to see another point of view is disappearing. There is little maturity and level headedness in opinion forming. Every form of government is lurching to the extreme - democracies world over, kleptocracy like Russia, softly religious regimes like Turkey, nutcases like the Philippines, and even communist China. Germany and Canada are the only shining beacons in this dispiriting world.Rameshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11782192840421019943noreply@blogger.com