So trump is a dictator now.
Get some perspective. The USA are the one country I would IMO actually trust. The fact that trump says it how it is should be respected not vilified. Anyone can hide but it takes guts to put your head above the parapet. He knows that some things he has done or will do won’t be correct for some of the USA or the world but doing nothing is not an option.
Much like doing nothing about the issues in this country shouldn’t be an option but it appears that it is the way it is.
Apathy will be shown to be the wrong action taken.
Just waiting to let integration happen is wrong and it won’t happen.
I’m not buying the “give it time” mantra.
Time will not be a healer it will be the cause of pain and suffering in the years ahead.
Seeing what is happening now and stating it is not hypocrisy,it is fact.

Again, you were asked directly and again you avoid.

Unlike you I answer questions, whether they are implied or explicit.

I do attack those who I regard as making silly comments. This is not hypocrisy as I don't pretend otherwise. I debate anyone contending otherwise. I don't hide behind opaque statements.

I do believe some worldviews are better than others. I do not pretend otherwise and I'm more than willing to explain why in debates.

I criticise those who put forward significantly different worldviews....I don't connect them holding those views as meaning that they are less intelligent. That may or may not be the case. Intelligence is not the be and end all in the judgement of a person. Most people who engage in a political forum can hold their own on some level.

I tend to focus more upon the ideas than play the actual person, unless I perceive a personal attack or attack on a group for poor reasons. Serial, for example....I differ wildly from him but it's an ideas debate not a personal attack....beyond the odd jokey swipe I suppose.

I state why I believe something and I state why I would believe another worldview might be wrong (within the context of society working as best it can).

For example, I attack progressivism regularly and I give my reasons why I attack it. People are free to defend it and I fully recognise that many intelligent people are progressives. Intelligence does not lead to one particular political narrative.

You seem to prefer a style of making statements then when criticised for them adopt a style of not answering subsequent questions. Even ones asking for clarity and instead hiding behind reframes.

What is wrong with answering questions.

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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)

Ha ha
I think he only tends to shoot low life scrum bags who have it coming.
I may be wrong.
It has been noted before

What have I dodged?

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The brain is a muscle like any other. I think many people just let their brain atrophy. So when it comes to thinking current affairs, they are not match sharp and opt for the easy route. We have both met many people like that. Not thick. But too lazy in the mind to connect with events that shape their lives.

Populist politics plays into that as it offers easy solutions for difficult problems.

In Victorian times few had the vote. But those who did had no TV or radio. They read "respectable" newspapers every day, poetry, philosophy, history, literature and actively engaged in the arts and intellectual debate. They were also directly involved in commerce, agriculture and industry. Politicians had to be on their toes then. Now I fear they see their role as more of a case of feeding the pond life.

That is why I see populist politics as dirty words. It insults us.

In some ways, even though I lost my career in the public sector because of it, I admire austerity as it was rightly seen as critical and went against mass support. Ditto direct negotiation with the IRA where Major defied his whole cabinet. More of that please.