circus or reality?
I bet he'll have it looking like the bloody Trafford Centre within his first term.
The risk you run is putting a not especially bright narcissist into a role where his unpredictability and lack of judgement may prove catestrophic. Make no mistake he will side with whoever preens his ego/vanity more, and that is likely to be the NeoCon powerbase of the Republican Party. The Democrats are simply more moderate, and whilst I'm no great fan of Hillary Clinton she has far greater intellect and far less ego than Trump. She is capable of making far more nuanced decisions and has infinitely more knowledge and understanding of world politics. She is by far the safer option, not least because her party is by far the safer option. The modern Republican Party really is insane, an entity riddled with corporate greed and exceptionally dangerous religious fundamentalism. Trump will lap all this up if those with agendas flatter him sufficiently. He is a vacuous preening media celebrity, nothing more, nothing less. He is exceptionally dangerous.
You tube seems to have created a whole mass of 'broadcasters' and 'news programs' that no one has ever heard of. It seems anyone can buy a suit and a microphone and sit in their back room yapping and sooner or later people will start linking to their 'blogs' and 'news programs' as if they are an authoritative source. Its interesting that they are nearly all left leaning.
Strikes me that no one in any position of power or influence is remotely interested in these guys and they are not going to have the slightest effect on anything in the real world.
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The channel Secular Talk is one of the best ones on the internet.
I guess what puts me off them is that I want factual news and not comment. I think I have said before that if I want chat and opinion then I'll watch a chat show not the news.
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If someone has to go to blogs and YouTube channels to find sonething that agrees with their opinion I think it is safe to conclude they lie at a political extreme.
I don't think this is universally the case. For example, it's hard to find out what Corbyn believes by watching the main news channels because they're more interested in reporting internal divisions within the PLP. Therefore, it's useful to check out left-wing blogs and news sites to find out. By your own admission Corbyn is moderately left of centre (he is only described as "far left" in some quarters because the political centre in this country has shifted so far to the right in the last 20 years). So there's at least one counterexample.If someone has to go to blogs and YouTube channels to find sonething that agrees with their opinion I think it is safe to conclude they lie at a political extreme.
To be fair, that is not a logical consequence of what Tony said. You just committed the classic logical fallacy of denying the antecedent:So you watch Fox News rather than say, The Young Turks, and it is safe to conclude your opinions are in the political centre?
Bollocks!
The likes of Secular Talk and TYT provide an analysis of current affairs that is not constrained by umpteen factors that does constrain/corrupt what you get via the usual news channels.
I hardly need to point these out.