Ok you two. It was you saying i think i am more intelligent. I was just expressing a view. You seem as erudite and informed as me, albeit you have reached a different destination.

This all seems to feed into what appears to be a world view that those who express views you deem "progressive" or "liberal" are all made by those who smugly look down on all you dumb proles.

Ok I read it again and you don't expressly state you are more intelligent, you actually ask a question and make a statement in one go.
I personally accept people's opinions .if I don't agree I say so.
If they are absolutely 100% bullcrap wrong I may assume they either haven't researched it or are making it up.
It doesn't make them ignorant ; just wrong.
All these threads on what's happening in the UK ref Islam etc is all a potential. I feel more likely potentially very dangerous. Nipping it now will eliminate the dangerous bit to a certain factor.
We have had examples of the thinking and actions.
Let's not allow it to escalate farther if we can wind it back now.

I didn't say you were supporting tyranny, I was accusing you of ignorance and a lack of balance....Which aren't great attributes of someone who thinks they are more intelligent than the masses.

The US has considerably more impact on world events than China and Russia?

Yes, in a positive fashion it has. Yet you only had criticism for Trump when in reality he heads a state that is the pinnacle and is currently helping improve the world economy.

Explain to me how China doesn't have a massive impact on the world.

China, the second largest economy in the world, which is projected to overtake the US sits on the UN security council and has huge impacts around the world, especially in its region and Africa.

Russia, which I didn't focus upon, still has considerable impact.

You bowed out because your central point showed a lack of ability to acknowledge balance between Trump and the far far worst impacts of non western world leaders.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Funny when the Guardian jokes about the Burka, it's OK? [Link]

.... but it has been written by a Moslem woman who wears a hijab, so it would be taken in the same way that blacks are permitted call each other by the 'n' word whilst the rest of us may not use it under any circumstances.

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

It is our duty as a nation to drag Britsh subjects of devout religious backgrounds into the 21st century. The idiot apologists seem to want the reverse.
Th influx of immigrants with devout religious beliefs are regressing this country. We have spent hundreds of years ridding ourselves of this sort of medieval nonsense and for what?