Hey City Zen!

Thinking about Bret Stephen's comparison of Trump and Warren, it is obvious that there are so many differences between Trump's and Warren's views of a rigged system based on fact---and no, the left was never unified against truth, from Popper to Paglia. Despite Stephen's rhetorical sleight of hand about Warren's own success in a rigged system, fact-based statistics show the US lags far behind Europe in class mobility, mortality rates for the poor, access to higher-education, imprisonment of minorities and the poor, etc, etc. But the most important aspect in all of this is that Warren's view is coherent with the views of a majority of Americans (see the polls), whereas the views of Trump and the GOP are only supported by a minority. Nothing screams more loudly about how rigged the US political system is than the fact that every branch of power in past couple of years (until January) has been controlled by a party that represents a minority of Americans. In France this would lead to revolution, but here conservatives like Mr. Stephens want to obfuscate this fundamental undemocratic truth with calls of more "optimism." We will be optimist when majority rule is again the state of the nation. Until then, we must do all we can to unrig the system.

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