So you put together a thoughtful, intelligent post then decide to stop talking?? So be it.
Look, I realize that you think you're some kind of Ben Shapiro.
I get that you want to be him badly, because you're attempting to use stuff you saw in the
"7 Reasons Ben Shapiro is So Dominant in Debates" clip on YouTube, particularly #3...
"pushing for specifics".
It's a cute parlor trick, if your opponent, or ... just the person you are talking to (how's that for a concept?) is stupid.
However, it's not working, and you're not Ben Shapiro, and you never will be.
And I'm not stupid.
On the main issue at hand, the Democrats, specifically
people on the LEFT fringe of the Democratic Party, historically had a mild fascination with the old USSR, (Soviet Union) which was communist.
And because the Soviet Union was communist, the left fringe felt that there might be some awkward kinship with the socialist aspects of the old Soviet leaders.
This of course, was a path to sure failure because even if the United States was indeed experimenting with a couple of mild socialist tweaks to the economy, (The New Deal) pretending that The New Deal meant we had any kinship with our adversaries the Soviets was both dangerous and foolhardy.
And mainstream Democrats understood this just as surely as Republicans did.
But as the leftward push in American society grew, more liberals attempted to engender a more open relationship with the Soviets. Ever the pragmatists, conservatives decided that despite "trust but verify", that they might give the new Soviet "perestroika" a try, and they gained the support of liberals by doing so.
I might remind everyone that I said that the conservatives were pragmatists back then, at least with regard to the Soviet question.
Where the Soviets were concerned, the left fringe in the Democratic Party WERE NOT. They honestly believed that the Soviets were our friends if we'd just give them a chance. The conservatives simply used perestroika as one more bargaining tactic in their overall quest to destroy the Soviet Union, which they accomplished.
Vladimir Putin's Russia is not the old communist Soviet Union, be this known if nothing else is.
"People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain." (PUTIN)
Today, we observe the far Right fringes of the Republican Party gaining a lot of strength.
And hand in hand, we observe a desire for kinship with Vladimir Putin's Russia in a pattern eerily similar to the fringe lunatic left fascination with the old Soviet Union.
It is not however based on any perceived common goals with Russia, but rather this time it is based solely on loyalty to Donald Trump, who is a client of Putin.
And it is foolish.
(My father, Peter H. Haas, 2nd from Left, SALT NEGOTIATOR in Moscow)