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In reply to the discussion: The prophecy of Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker, May 20, 2016 [View all]mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)35. I think that's why the media gave him so much free air time
good for ratings.. but something had to get people past his obvious incompetence and lack of knowlege about how the government works. Oprah is also a celebrity, but she has intelligence and empathy that we can see, and she wasn't born into wealth.
I don't know, maybe it was, but I look at the fervor for him from the "Christians" and I think there's a lot more going on. My evangelical inlaws are right wing trumpers because their preacher preaches it. You are right about the Kardashian crap.
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Should Dems take control of all three branches and embark on wholesale political, social, and
Pepsidog
Nov 2019
#3
Gopnik has the antidote in 2019 book: A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism
Bernardo de La Paz
Nov 2019
#10
The problem is the number of people who are ill informed or refuse to believe.
Lonestarblue
Nov 2019
#13
Sorry Grasswire2, I did a site search for Adam Gopnik before I posted and your post didn't come up.
Fla Dem
Nov 2019
#31