Quote:Right but we kill other kinds of people for selfish reasons. I mean, is there that much of a difference? we might say "oops" afterward but result is the same.

 

LOL, and to actually help out your argument... We may not kill our journalists and whistle-blowers, but we sure will jail them, drive them out of this country, or drive them to suicide...

 

I get it.  At some point you have to look at the injustice and say, "hey, how far off from Putin's russia are we?".  But even with that said, the answer should always be that we are ideologically striving to maintain the principles of the Constitution.

 

And there is nothing Constitutionally relevant in the Putin regime that any politician running in the USA should say makes Putin stand out as a good leader that should be respected for his leadership skills.  Especially as President, the importance of the figurehead and symbolic authority of the office is just as important as the actual policies that you implement.  Trump doesn't seem to get that.  You don't pick twitter wars.  You don't admire publicly the leadership skills of tyrants.

 

These are things that lead to the corruption of a nations "soul", for lack of a better word.

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