Heard a great quote on Colbert tonight.

[Stonepounder]

His guest was a guy named (of all things) "Charlamagne Tha God". But that aside, talking about Trump, Charl said: "I think we are beyond Liberal and Conservative, Republican and Democrat, and we have moved to right and wrong, good and evil, and you have to decide what side you want to be on".

[applegrove]

1. Adam Schiff was on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah and said

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that the world isn't divided between communists and capitalists anymore, but between authoritarianism and representative democracies. And the world is wondering which the US will be.

[flamingdem]

2. Schiff sees things with a clear vision

that we really need right now.

[JHan]

3. Schiff is right . I would expand that ( and slightly adjust it)

The tension is specifically authoritarianism versus liberalism, and oligarchies ( And their defenders) vs democracies. The work of oligarchs and their defenders is to limit government by hamstringing it using "smaller government" rhetoric which means less oversight. They find ways to pervert the democratic process through dark money for example. The other tensions are tribalism and provincialism versus diversity and cosmopolitanism, theocracies vs secular states, extractive industries vs renewables, globalism vs nationalism. Contexualise Trump in all this and he's the most regressive President we've ever had since the depression. I keep hoping Brexit and Trump and the situation in Turkey is the last shout, the last gasp, of the regressives.

[zentrum]

4. My dream ticket is Schiff and

.....Warren in 2020. Both great fighters who don't quibble.

[Hekate]

5. I'm not ready for 2020 yet, but that sounds GOOD to me