Comments by "Peter deWolf" (@StoneShards) on "Rep. Gowdy on fallout from the Helsinki summit" video.

  1. Marcus Oakes<-- You've put your finger on the pulse of the problem: Putin is a stand-in for everything the Soviet Union used to stand for. The difficult transition from communist/atheist to democratic/Christian has been almost universally discounted in the West. And, at the time of this transition, the West was decidedly unhelpful, deliberately--as if a powerful, hidden faction moved behind the scenes to scuttle the transition...but we don't talk about that (though we should). There's powerful world history that's been "baked" into the American political psyche, creating a certain inertia of political awareness that has not yet been successfully countered within the individuals who are subject to this inertia. They don't seem to care to understand the meaning of Russia's emergence from communism, or even more likely, they think they already do understand...everything. That's low IQ; that's Dunning-Kruger.
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