crazy old coder

recently, i saw a post on a linkedin group in which an apparent leftist, whom i will call sasha, says that she can think of "plenty of reasons" to trash a college republican party, or that party in general.  she goes on to say that such people have a "sad inability to engage in ... discourse on a particular issue," and deleting comments that don't agree with their "uneducated" rhetoric.  i tried to post there, but LI has a ridiculously small comment size, so i posted an edited version of the first paragraph of the following screed, then put a link to this post at the end.  i hope she reads it, but "deleting posts" and not reading answers is common to folks on both sides of current issues.  as i note at the end of this post, i hope that i can actually talk with people like her, because i happen to agree that refusing to listen to the other side is *ALWAYS* a Bad Idea. really, Sasha?  i'm a nazicrat, and have been for fifty years; i have no

today i stumbled across a website from another old fart who can't be pigeon-holed; his name is charles hughes smith (https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-50-trillion-plundered-from-workers.html). this particular post of his interested me, because i have thought about this particular thing for some time now, but didn't know how to approach it. it turned out that writing a letter to him helped my put my own thoughts in order, and this posting is the result. his view is interesting, and is perhaps somewhat leftist, but he seems willing to discuss things, so I found his contact and sent him this email (please excuse the use of capital letters; i often use proper capitalization when writing to people so as not to put them off. stackoverflow once gave me a ration of s**t for not doing so, so i removed all my posts and deleted my account): Mr. Hughes: I see from your blog and website that U claim to be non-partisan. I just discovered U today, so I haven't rea