Performer Andy Seal concluded the rally. The crowd, many seated under the American flag flying at half mast to honor those killed in the Las Vegas shooting, joined in as Seal strummed John Lennon’s “Imagine” on his guitar singing “imagine all the people, living life in peace.” [More]Sorry, what? I was imagining John Lennon kicking Stuart Sutcliffe in the head with his Beatle boots...
Imagine? We don't have to imagine, we've been there. Communist China, the former Soviet Union, the Berlin Wall, Pol Pot's killing fields, Cuban refugees, it goes on . . . John Lennon could write an entertaining ditty, but he had some of the worst politics of anyone who ever lived.
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She implies that to be armed is to hate. Dangerous rhetoric.
Not to mention zero understading of economics. Economics isn’t some artificial system, it has basic laws like physics and mathematics.
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I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
Sorry, you can’t imagine both those things happening in the same system. Instead, imagine Venezuela.
Nothing to kill or die for? What a hollow, empty existence. How does the old hymn go, "who loved their country more than self and honor more than life".
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