Really, Albert? Not such a genius after all, then. How do you expect to pay for all those armed forces then?

Except he was talking about the ruination of poor people by taxation, the benefits of which went to bankers and holders of capital. 

"tools and dupes" — yup, he foresaw Trump et al!

It's called rule of law. Sorry you couldn't figure that out for yourself.

No one needs license or a license to do that, Alan, as you very well know. Issues of defamation apply but it is no more improper to call an actual racist a racist than it is to call Harvey Weinberger a sexual predator. I'm not black but it is still my absolute right, and even duty, to call out racism ,and antisemitism, whenever I see it.

It is amazing how ardently racists resist these simple First Amendment, common sense truths. Snowflakes, anyone?

I had the same reaction, Mike. Not sure about the rating, but I immediately thought: Sorta like the evangelicals?

An author, huh? I hope her books are more coherent.

Extreme political divisiveness is evil. Well done, you!

Sure. I guess that's why Trump's FCC pick is anti-net neutrality. And the Republicans in Arizona recently tried to pass a law chilling the right of assembly (seizure of assets if a gathering ~might~ turn violent, and those in other states tried similar. And the silencing of Elizabeth Warren on the Senate floor.
It ain't one-sided, folks.
That said, the Left is definitely has that smugger-than-thou thing down pat.

Sooooo, forget military service then, right?

"Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our political parties can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain."
There - fixed that for you.

Benjamin Franklin never said that or anything like it.

This is a meme generated (or at least circulated) by Americans for Prosperity. Given that this organization likes to pass itself off as a responsible participant in the nation’s political life, you’d think they’d take 10 seconds to check the veracity of the quotes they attribute to founders like Franklin. But Franklin never said this, even though you wouldn’t know it from the hundreds of times it’s been attributed to him on the web (without citation), almost always by folks with Conservative/Libertarian politics.

But you sure as heck make the rich richer by making the poor poorer!

Oh, yeah? Well same goes for trickle down and supply side economics!