Posted by dovetailjoint on December 25, 2018, 3:33 pm, in reply to "whats left of the left"
I may have been a little too harsh, sorry. I suppose one should be more generous at this time of year?
I've always been a passionate supporter of women's rights too. I remember having a long chat at the Frankfurt Book Fair with a lovely Israeli woman, who, it transpired was a female bodyguard or something for an Israeli politician who had written his biography. She told me that these old, fat, heroes of their 'war of independence' against the Arabs, used to had around the best looking soldiers like trophies for sex. The girls' approach was that it was almost their 'duty' to supply these guys with sex and comfort, because, after all they've given Israel so much. It was a bit odd, because I'd just been put in a similar position, the chance to really see my career take-off, in return for becoming someones lover. So I and the Israeli soldier became really close really quickly.
I think it's a catastrophe that the 'left' doesn't reach out to Trump's supporters, especially in relation to their opposition to spending so much money on foreign wars nobody really understands the reasons for. If joined Bernie Sanders supporters with Trump's, this would really be a force to be reckoned with, and it might just be the beginning of something important, a new 'social national' movement to challenge the Establishment.