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Carl Benjamin: The 20 year-old lad is right…
15, April

Carl Benjamin: The 20 year-old lad is right…

The 20 year-old lad is right. Polanski thinking his policy "should" improve things is a sure sign that he would ruin everything. Sensible fellow, bet he votes Restore.
Carl Benjamin: The 20 year-old lad is right…
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Carl Benjamin: I know it's a strange thing to say...

I know it's a strange thing to say, but I am not despondent about the mid term results. The American right is, in some ways, the victim of its own success with Trump. The ability to slough off the foreign interests and corruption was made impossible because of the victory. Now, the way is opened up to remove these factors for future campaigning so the same mistakes won't be made twice. It's painful but necessary.

Carl Benjamin: The problem that the left...

The problem that the left has with the term "socialism" is the ineffablility of its definition. Socialism seems to ultimately mean a centralised, rationalised, and fundamentally unnatural order of society, and this is usually adopted by the left because their end goal demands it, but it could also be adopted by the right for other purposes. This is why fascism and nazism haunt the left-wing mind in a way that normal people just don't think about. They want all the groundwork done that could possibly enable fascism, just for their plan. It's completely believable that someone could hijack such a system for other ends.
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