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Old 03-04-2017, 02:28 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Bladewire View Post
That's a very limited old school train of thought not based on modern science or physics theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_travel

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The sooner your generation is replaced with ours, one by one, the faster we can finally advance into the future. 71 year old presidents, reigniting old prejudices, hatreds and fears, don't help either, you set everyone back and try to drag the world into a dark cold mindset where everything is tried and failed and nothing unknown is possible.
I agree with you about this except for the generation comment.

What did previous younger politicians do, that was marvellous for most Westerners?

They are presently bankrupting our countries, exporting jobs, importing low skilled workers, going to unnecessary and unwinnable wars, making the billionaire-multi-millionaire class even richer and most of the rest poorer, lowering taxes to buy votes and borrowing even more, money to paste over deep problems. Moved away from production and manufacturing to banking and financial services which are at best a casino. At the present rate of loss of GDP, Jobs, Taxes, etc. Where do you see your children's generations future?

I will give you that Trump isn't great, but he shows how your system is manipulated so only those approved by the 1% get a chance to change things. He wiped the floor with all the other Republicans and beat Clinton at her own game under her rules. If Trump had campaigned to only the poor, he would have wiped the floor with her as well.

The only other serious contender was Sanders and he was ambushed.
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