re: #157 Killgore Trout

Don’t dismiss the idea so easily. From a progressive point of view he is very much “center right”. He hasn’t freed all those poor oppressed innocent souls in GITMO, he continues drone strikes, wars in foreign lands, indefinite detention, pragmatic economic policies like not rounding up bankers and capitalists for crimes against humanity, close ties to Israel, etc. It’s all based in pragmatism but from a progressive viewpoint he’s a moderate conservative.

But I don’t normally see things through a progressive point of view, my natural viewpoint being conservative.