“If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.”
-R B Fuller

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  • No, that kind of moral equivalence is what Trump plays on.

    Take for example: “All politicians lie”

    But!

    “Read my lips, no new taxes” is qualitatively different from “They are eating the cats! We are deporting rapists and murders!”

    Surely you see the difference

    Obama war crimes bombings at least he worked with the State Department and DoD lawyers to come up with a legal theory and framework. It obviously blurred some boundaries. But it was qualitatively different from literally threatening genocide after consulting (as far as we can tell) nobody.