Oh No, The New Awesome Primary Thread

In Saskatchewan, "cloudy" means there's at least one cloud in the sky. In British Columbia, "sunny" means there's at least one square inch of blue sky.(I actually like the American primary system. The Canadian system is similar in principal but it happens only when the party decides it should happen and only according to the party's rules. Typically, sixteen-year-olds can vote to select the candidate even if they can't vote in the election. Stuffing the conventions with busloads of high school students is a common tactic.)

Since Trump is all about being the center of attention, he'll probably want a running mate who blends in with the wallpaper. Sarah Palin is his equal on the idiot scale but even he couldn't stand her for more than a few minutes. The same applies to any of his opponents.Edited by ringo, : Removed redundant extra word.

I don't think Hitler "ordered" the murder of 6 million so much as he inspired it. It was over-enthusiastic underlings responding to his stupid rhetoric who did the dirty work. Did Hitler ever even visited a concentration camp? I suspect he would have been as appalled as you or I (though he probably would have just turned his back).That's where I think the parallel with Trump is apt. He himself may just be full of hot air but his hot air inspires people who are a lot worse than he is. When he's elected President, watch him appoint Reinhard Heydrich as head of Homeland Security.

I didn't say he didn't know. I said he didn't see.My point is that he inspired the monsters and enabled the monsters.Edited by ringo, : Spellin.

Fair enough. My intention was to hone the meaning of the word, not contradict it. Pardon my subtlety.

I make no excuses for the Holocaust.My point - again - was that a demagogue tends to attract the people who are capable of such actions. Hitler had been railing against Jews for decades before he had the power to do anything to them. He attracted the kind of followers who were ready, willing and able to do the unthinkable. He couldn't actually do the unthinkable without them.Hence the parallel with Trump. He has the endorsement of biker gangs and the Ku Klux Klan. All he needs is the likes of Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy and he'll be able to carry out his program.(Mind you, we can hope that the US Constitution will prevent him from doing what he wants to do.)

I'm curious to see how he reacts if/when he (hopefully) loses. A Canadian Conservative would blame his defeat on the Toronto Elites (not a sports team) and the ethnic vote.

It's the party of Lincoln and Reagan. When those two names were mentioned in the same breath, I thought lightning was going to strike.

Well, we Canadians investigate refugees before we let them in too - but we don't single out Muslims. What Trump said is the equivalent of, "We won't hire black people without a background check."

I'm not interested in playing he said she said with Faith. My point is that her logic is wrong, whether her premise is correct or not.

That's true of many politicians. There's the one who does what he has to do to get elected and the one who does the job he was elected to do.Maybe Trump won't be as big a fool in office as he is on the campaign trail.

Then maybe people will learn that you can't run a country like a business.

Christians are taking an active role in sponsoring refugees. Locally, it's Catholic churches, Anglican churches, United churches, even Baptist churches.

Ever hear of the Dreyfuss Affair?

What does "recently" have to do with anything? By Jewish accounts - which you say we should accept - France has been one of the most anti-Semitic countries in Europe for a long time. For all we know, French Muslims might have learned their anti-Semitism from the French instead of from Islam.