I believe your friend is right, unlike his political opponent who waivers as the political climate changes. This is one thing that makes Trump a strong President. If we had him the past 3 years we wouldn't be in the situation we are now in which is horrible. You don't have to like his personal idiosyncrasies but you can't help but notice what Biden has gotten us into in a short time. Do you like it?

I hope things work out well for you, Tom.

The way I see it, Tom, we have three choices and apparently it will be either Trump, Biden, or nobody. Somebody will be elected so that really means two choices - Trump or Biden. I cannot bear thinking of another 4 years with Biden, even though I may not last the 4 years, so I will be voting for whomever is opposing him, which apparently will be Trump. Trump is no model of decency, personally, but can you think of anyone who has been in past Presidencies. Sometimes, even usually, we can't have the one we think is ideal for the job and none are perfect. Far from it.

It seems that the news programs you refer to back in the 70's and 80's have given way to opinion programs on both sides of the spectrum. I have tuned into MSNBC and CNN occasionally as well and see programs like Joy Reid and Joe in the AM and Rachel Maddow and others and I can't believe what I am seeing. Fox is the same way on the right. Bret Baier provides a more unbiased news program which I consider to be more like the older ones you refer to. As I see it, there are many reasons for the departure from true news shows to the opinion shows. I believe much of it is due to the way Colleges have moved to the left in their philosophy toward education. God has been left out more and more in the education of our youth and it seems it is not so much just a ho-hum view like take Him or leave Him but more of an antagonism or even a war to exclude any mention of Him from life, often on the basis of the excuse of freedom of religion which has really turned into freedom from religion, unless it is muslim or another weird belief. We are paying the price for this movement and it isn't going to be cheap. Not all of the movement toward Godlessness is confined to the news media, most of it is reflected in the way the general population has responded to the changes in education standards and efforts. I believe the belief is that it is good to go that way instead of towards what the traditional Christian teachings have been over the years. If one likes what he sees in the world today, that is undoubtedly the way he will go. Personally, I don't like it.

I don't think there's any question about that.

Do you really think this kind of derogatory, nasty comments are going to help your sorry cause. I can't believe I'm even addressing it but it is so damn stupid I can't resist. I am really sorry for you.

By moving forward into the future, I assume you mean policies such as letting illegals storm into our Country and paying for their care, letting criminals out without bail, passing along debt knowingly signed for to those who earned their own way, allowing deadly drugs to be brought into the Country without any attempt to stop them. Maybe it'd time to think about the substance of what your party is doing instead of assuming their policies are always good.

Thanks for correcting my paraphrase. I was speaking from memory so I wasn't too far off. Another of his books, one which I enjoy in a little different style, is "The Screwtape Letters." It is "written" by a subsidiary of the devil to his underling, I believe, and gives a different perspective on how the devil works. In fact I have it on my shelf and I think I will pull it out and do a bit more reviewing. Hope you enjoy your reading.

If that was my reasoning and those were my policies, which they are not, I would never admit it, that's for sure.

I believe that C.S.Lewis said, "We know that only through Christ can we be saved. What we don't know is that only those who know Christ can be saved." I'm not sure if or how that applies here.

2007-08 has nothing to do with your diagram. Assuming it's valid, it simply illustrates the decades long swing toward the left by college profs who have grown up being indoctrinated themselves. That's what happens when you allow the left to take charge in educating your kids. It doesn't start in colleges but that's where it leads and and hopefully will take a swing back the other way when these indoctrinated youth hit the real world and realize what they are up against as a result of leftist programs.

I don't quite see how you come to that conclusion.

No, Mike, they are now apparently considered newcomers.