Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Julian Assange Explains Why The Democrats Are Doomed" video.

  1. He made the "I'm still a Democrat" move, and gave way. He could've split the party, but the left would never forgive him if Trump won under those conditions, which he well might have, and by a larger margin. On the cusp of the decision, he decided not to split the party under whose brand he was campaigning. Kind of chicken-shit. Kind of statesmanlike. I don't fault him.
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  2. My take on the last year or so is that he prevented something that would've gotten worse, with no end in sight, if Hillary had won. I think it would've been full-on "enrich the virtue-signaling oligarchs" in their seats of privilege, at the expense of everybody else, from insider stock tips to sweetheart-deal speaking gigs, to not-even-thinly-veiled pay-to-play going on in plain view. I LOVE the venom and hatred of the president being spewed. He is VERY MUCH on notice, as ALL presidents should be, that we are watching, and some of us hate him so much we'll make shit up and BELIEVE it the next day. All presidents should be under this kind of scrutiny. I think we're discovering that things got lax, because the same crew got used to having their own way for too long. A 2-term presidency represents close to a decade of the same guys, who all know each other, doing favors for one another, from insider stock tips to sweetheart land deals, to not-even-thinly-veiled pay-to-play taking place in plain view. And we see a pattern of lawless behavior (and relaxation of compartmentalization of intel at Obama's discretion) that was ignored, if it was in the right cause.
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  3. LOL! Going after them is like going after Pro Wrestling for fixing matches! It's entertainment, NOT a sport, not a little 'd' democratic primary or caucus!
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  4. Republicrats. Yes. Repubs folded on fiscal responsibility, domestically, and Democrats never had a big problem with defense spending and undeclared-war acts of violence abroad.
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  5. Well stated.
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  6. Every time some idiot does something stupid with a firearm, y'all want to pass laws that make no sense, and do nothing but further restrict the law-abiding citizen. I'd like to see licensing for firearms coming with some required training, and make that training a very easily-obtained and common elective in junior-high or high school, just like Hunter's Safety was when I was a kid. I learned all about firearm safety at 11, in a community full of kids that would harvest their first deer at age 12 (and save their family a ton of money at the meat counter). If you pass the training, then there'd be no delay in the purchase of a firearm, because you're untrained. But everybody should be trained in firearm safety before they're 18. Age 11 or 12 seemed to work just fine in our rural community. We respected guns, but nobody feared them, any more than they were afraid of a car or a tractor, although all 3 had high mischief potential.
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  7. Meh. We'll probably see the same thing happen that always happens. There'll be a shakeup at the top and the parties will re-brand themselves. Personally, I'd rather see sincere and open-minded, little 'p' progressives arguing with little 'l' libertarians on the proper role and form government should take. We'd probably be a little or a lot more like Switzerland.
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  8. Only our people would give more, voluntarily, to charity.
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  9. Good, smart liberal site. The kind of liberals I like to argue with, in friendship. The sincere Democrats, who want to reclaim the brand. And if there's a takeover by smart liberals, there's going to be a lot of common ground, between liberals, which most good conservatives actually are.
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  10. Bernie's too old and too vague. You need a younger guy, with more gas in the tank. Not necessarily younger, but with more charisma and energy.
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  11. I love the perspective on Russsia. This shit goes WAY back. Read Heinlein's Expanded Universe. The hysteria I shared about the Soviet threat just didn't square with a a logistics man (Heinlein's job in WW II) looking at their port facilities.
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