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To: Arthur Radley who wrote (325975)	4/26/2020 12:11:43 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362497

I haven't read the article yet and intend to... I would like to comment that the history of populism finds many traditional political triumphs and tragedies. Left and right. In times of fear and economic disparity, people across various spectrum's turn to populism. One could argue that Pol Pot was a Populist. And Ross Perot. And Bernie. But no sane person would conflate them. The odd thing in Trumps case is while he (like his populist anti-state mentor Steve Bannon) is an elitist to the max - when stripped of the bullshit. Add to that "opportunist." The thing about Populists like George Wallace is that everyone outside the privileged fatcats can find something they agree with in the platforms. And they/we tend to filter out the uuuuuuugly parts. God I miss baseball.

To: Arthur Radley who wrote (325975)	4/29/2020 4:40:58 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362497

What I keep trying to show to people is just how barbaric we humans where really until just about 50 years ago. People need to dwell on the fact we allowed people to have SLAVES just 150 years ago. Slaves. Imagine, people sat down at dinner and argued if that was OK and then we had to force the slave states to give it up and 100 years later we had to force the same people to give up Black Chain Gangs and segreation. Imagine the full depth of barbarism both slavery and segregation represent! People need to study science and history more than they do, especially the men. A little less time watching sports and a little more time learning about human history and science. We humans have been barbarians and too much of that still exists. It is NOT OK to be racist, sexist, homophobic, or for societies to have norms and mores that are those things. And yet half the world still does. And it is important for people to realize just how much smarter and civilized we are today than even 100 years ago. The more humans know about their history and science the more civilized and humanitarian we will become and the better chance we will have of surviving the "singularity" on our door step. People should know at least the basics about our history e.g. the importance to tools and even more so FIRE! They should know how we settled down 12,000 to 15,000 years ago and started growing grains and domesticating animals, and how we were dominated by MYTHS during that time and how through learning and the development of metals, math and languages led to today getting rid of those myths and replacing them with modern humanitarian civilization. These things should be basic knowledge. Cheers The good news is that the women are studying those subjects, it seems, much more than the men, and maybe they will be our salvation?