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Just to illustrate everything said previously, here is a completely idiotic article arguing at length that Sanders is a racist because some supporters of his used some Twitter hash tags or whatever and something, something, screeenshots, hash tags, somebody shoot me now because I’m perishing of boredom.

Yet the candidate’s truly outrageous statements about Russia, China or Cuba receive no coverage whatsoever. People want to blather on about hash tags instead. So whom should we blame for our foreign policy being as whackadoodle as our obsession with hash tags and our indifference to the world?

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    Barbara

    I live in Ohio now but I grew up in New York City (the Bronx and Queens, to be exact). When I moved to the Midwest in my early twenties, one thing that stood out to me even then as a naïve young thing, was that Midwesterners had no consciousness of the world beyond their immediate region.

    Obviously they knew other places existed but they assumed everyone everywhere was just like them. Everyone wanted what they wanted. I sometimes heard the expression, “Russians are people just like us.” Well, yes, we are all humans but there are such additional and complicating things such as culture and history and geography and politics and…

    Now I had grown up surrounded by immigrants and the children of immigrants; I hadn’t thought that was special at all until I lived among people who knew no immigrants. It really stunts your world view. I guess what I’m an trying to say is I feel at least a little of your frustration.

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