A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Will people suddenly stop hating Donald Trump when he leaves office? Well, I can’t answer this for “many people.” I can’t even answer this for “liberals” or “many liberals.” I can only answer for myself, even though I assume there are others who feel this way about Donald Trump. To be honest with you, dear questioner, I’ve never been a fan of Donald Trump’s. Based on his long history of seeking public attention, his very public penchant for marrying attractive (if perhaps a bit plastic-looking) women, then ditching them after having widely-publicized affairs with other attractive (and plastic-looking) women. and his less-than-stellar business history (Trump steaks, Trump vodka, Trump casinos, and worse yet, Trump University), I don’t see much to admire in the current President of the United States. "I love pitting people against each other. My whole life is based on that. It brings out the best in people and the worst in people. If the worst comes out, you don't wan...

What is a good counter-argument to “the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened if the Jews had guns”? The best counter-argument is this: Even if thousands of Jews had access to rifles, shotguns, and pistols of the era, they still would not have defeated professionally trained, professionally-led mechanized German forces. It’s elementary. The Germans would have made mincemeat of a Jewish militia. They would have suffered losses, as they certainly did during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of April 1943. But the Germans had tanks, planes, armored vehicles, and heavy artillery. The Jews did not. Also, consider: the victims of the Holocaust were not exclusively young men of military age in good health with access to firearms. They were civilians, and millions of them were elderly, children, and women. And it’s not like they had the ways and means to organize and arm themselves to form an organized resistance in several European nations occupied by the Germans and other Axis powers. That’s wh...