Tom Ellis
1 min readMar 2, 2024

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Your general point about entropy is well taken. But I vehemently reject your implied equivalence between Biden and Trump. Biden is an aging New Deal moderate liberal, a decent, compassionate, normal man with a lifetime of experience as a policymaker at the federal level. And every major act of legislation he has sponsored is clearly in the public interest, despite the inevitable constraints posed by vested interests and an utterly insane Republican opposition. Conversely, Trump is a lying, criminal psychopath of the first order, a "Dark Triad" personality type like Stalin, Hitler, and Putin--narcissistic, vindictive, and devious--who has followed directly in Hitler's footsteps to create a fanatical cult of personality, by forging an unholy alliance between the self-serving corporate elite and the easily-deluded, bigoted Lumpenproletariat. You choose: an aging politician, mildly corrupt (like all the others) who is nevertheless motivated by compassion for ordinary people--or a raving, deranged, narcissistic, hatef-filled psychopath?

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Tom Ellis
Tom Ellis

Written by Tom Ellis

I am a retired English professor now living in Oregon, and a life-long environmental activist, Buddhist, and holistic philosopher.

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