Comparing Trump to the Clintons, I’m sensing a difference between outright sleazy and sometimes shady. Not sure quite where to draw the line, but maybe it’s like a billion compared to a million, that is, 1,000-to-1. Or how squishy or rocky whatever is underfoot feels. Or even the direction of the wind.

I suppose, too, that I’d see a difference in a willingness to do business with one or the other. Yes, one I’d avoid altogether, the one with a proclivity to file lawsuit when things don’t go his way. As for the other, I’d simply be wary – and move with good counsel and colleagues.

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I’d extend this to other comparisons. Hillary’s emails with the 22 million Karl Rove deleted from the Bush White House in 2007 or the Bush Administration’s private domain on the RNC server that same year. Where was the congressional investigation? Or is it purely a matter of party loyalty, right or wrong?

Or how about Benghazi versus the eight attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates during the George W. Bush administration or the 213 U.S. Marines killed in a 1983 attack on their barracks in Lebanon, during Ronald Reagan’s White House? Just for perspective, there’s always seemed to be a witch hunt here. Even some hysteria.

Me? I’d like some better balance. Useful advice and help fixing the problems, rather than blame.

Been reflecting on the great irony of Fox television’s bias toward right-wing candidates who wrap themselves in a nostalgic image of a nation back before, well, 1960. That is, before the network began spewing its vulgarity into American living rooms and lowering the standards of civilized conversation with language and situations that never before would have been allowed in polite company, much less its propaganda wing of the Republican establishment.

In other words, Fox has been a big part of the problem. Would the solution be to pull the plug? Do it themselves, to clear their conscience? Just wondering.

I’m tired of hearing so-called liberal media take the blame. And please don’t accuse Norman Lear and his societal comedies. They’re downright uplifting by comparison.

It would be fascinating, by the way, to get Archie Bunker’s take on Don “the Con” Trump. I’m guessing even he would see through the shill. Maybe in tandem with George Jefferson, at the bar? I’d drink to that.

A comment on a Hippie Trails pin at Pinterest just might explain how Trump-Pence followers interpret their vow to “Make America great again.” It goes:

“Man, that takes me back. I began in law enforcement back in the 70s, in the county jail in late 1970, on to police work four years later. we used to knock the crap out of those long hairs. Toss ’em into a drunk tank full of GIs from Fort Hood. Give ’em a free buzz cut on suspicion of lice. Worked out a lot of transition-to-civilian-life stress that way. Made coming to work pleasant. Back when a joint was a felony, and prison meant hard work in the sun. Good times!”

The fact that such a brutal, abusive outlook is still treasured by some shows how far we are from a just society. It echoes so-called conservatives who want to curb bureaucracy and government at the same time they’re invading bedrooms and voting for soaring prison populations.

Listen. Making America great is the opposite of such tyranny.

Or, as many are interpreting the campaign slogan, Make America hate again.

It’s enough to make Jesus weep.