Election Year or Fear!

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No having a go intended, but you did make the point yourself that the post, which IMO should just have been brief tributes, had become political, and even Sith and your own reminiscences would have allowed/fuelled less innocent content from our two extremists. Therefore I decided to let the thread, like Paddy, to rest in peace. If you want me to I'll start a new thread along the lines of 'Was Paddy's sacrifice in vain?' or move your comments to the EYOF thread.

‘No having a go intended’. Really? I think most will think differently. It’s just become what you do, particularly where Swale and I are concerned and now possibly Sith too who, although always more respectful, may hold a more generous minded political outlook than yourself.

As regards MA’s thread. I wasn’t going to contribute at all but then Tricky politicised it by introducing his pet topic - immigration - just for a change. I replied and then, as you say, recognised and observed that it wasn’t necessarily fitting to further politicise such a thread and apologised.

Having said that…if you look a little closer, implicit in MA’s original post are the questions, was it all in vain and how would those who made such sacrifice feel about the world today?

With that in mind Sith’s contribution was entirely valid and undeserving of your virtue signalling slap down.

So, I suggest that, for those who are interested, we continue here with Sith’s question of whether the world really is a much worse place than was the case approaching a century ago and to what extent the bombardment of 24/7 televised news is responsible for forming our, possibly false, perceptions.