U.S. Presidential debate

[kandrathe]

About Bannon, I can't tell if you're joking, or if you really just haven't followed the progression of that particular wretched hive of scum and villainy.

Well, you are correct. I don't follow the right at all, and I avoid all types of click bait "journalism". For this election cycle, I've mostly tuned out as any outcome was an unthinkable nightmare to me in vastly different ways. I commiserate with those who preferred the nightmare scenario of Hillary, although I couldn't bring myself to vote for either of them.

I get the fear of a rise in xenophobia, homophobia and nationalism. You know me, I will resist any force that attempts to deny any person their liberty and dignity.

I just don't think it is at the level of linking Breitbart with something very right wing like Stormfront, just as it wouldn't be correct to link the Daily Beast with something very left wing like Morning Star. There is so much hyperbole on both sides, I'm still not sure if it is Trump or Hillary or both who are in direct league with the Armageddon forces of hell unleashed.

Again, I'm not a consumer of any of the above so I may lack the scrutiny and full perspective of their editorial stance. It is not helpful to merely label and shut down our opponents as a "basket of deplorables". We need to win the ideological battle with rational, respectful debate, or resign ourselves to an eventual civil war.

... or nominate Milo the Troll King for the supreme court, at this point.

Who is this Troll King?

edit: never mind I looked him up. Seems fitting for a Trump evangelist -- no filter. But, he'd be the first openly gay, British, and offensively punk rock conservative on the SCOTUS. Kind of a slightly prettier, more eloquent, gay, tyrannical Johnny Rotten. While there are no prerequisites other than tradition, I'm not sure how they'd skirt the whole "not a citizen, not a lawyer" thing, while technically the original SCOTUS were Brits born in the colonies.