France vs. Russia

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Easiest question ever. Russia is the single most evil and destructive country in the world. It's a vile cancer that has only infected the world and brought nothing but death and devestation in pretty much its entire history.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Easiest question ever. Russia is the single most evil and destructive country in the world. It's a vile cancer that has only infected the world and brought nothing but death and devestation in pretty much its entire history.

Get a grip.

a bit of a hyperbole maybe, but he's basically right isn't he?  I wouldn't have said "only", I'm sure they did a good thing or two somewhere on accident because of the broken clocks law.



(I have hard biases against Russia, perhaps too hard...but the whole hating gays and the land grabs make it really easy to keep those biases alive)

There is WWII, but that's about it. Russia has been an abomination every other point in history. Weird that CONSERVATIVES are denying that

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

RINO Tom is very far from the ideal of all liberal, all the time.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

RINO Tom is very far from the ideal of all liberal, all the time.

He would love Dutch or Belgian liberals. According to Dutch high school social science textbooks the Republicans are extremely liberal (and also really conservative) while the Democrats are moderately liberal and progressive. It's funny how lefties like Sanders, centrist moderate heroes like the UK Libdems and the most right-wing VVD or Venstre politicians all identify as liberals.

Based on what I've read, American "liberals" in the conventional sense (Jefferson to Jackson to Wilson to FDR to LBJ, etc.) derived their initial "liberalism" from the idea that America would be a newer, more progressive society where one's wealth or privilege would not guarantee one success, as it did in comparatively "conservative" Europe.  Following this spirit, Democratic-Republicans and Democrats have always taken whatever measure necessary (decreasing size of government, returning power to the states, increasing size of government, centralizing power, you name it) to stop our society from ever moving toward an oligarchy.  In the 1800s, that might have been opposing a continental railroad that would cost tons of money and only benefit those rich enough to afford to utilize it, but it also might be making the wealthy pay more in taxes in 2016 so that a new train could be built from the poorer neighborhoods to get into downtown somewhere.

That's the problem with drawing conclusions based around the "method" a politician of old tried to use to achieve his goals.

So you're a Republican because you want an oligarchy?