I see that many of you are using the comment feature which I’ve added to the page. I welcome this. I see as well that some of you have responded obscenely: that’s your right. But, you should know that my general theory of political argument is something like this:

First, they’ll simply call you ‘stupid’.

Second, they’ll condescend to you.

Third, they’ll try to out-argue you with irrelevant minutiae and biased sources (Howard Zinn says… Noam Chomsky says…)

Fourth, they’ll declare that arguing with your or reading what you say is a waste of time (yet they go on reading).

Finally, they’ll just call you a F*****G N**I as a substitute for reasoning and substantive debate.