Like I said before, the parochial issues are not my concern and, as someone here said, "not my circus, not my monkeys". Just this here:

>The left is as filled with scandal and lies and corruption and underhandedness as much as the right.

There's no left. What is now commonly called left in the US is somewhere... let's say on scale of -10 to +10, which would represent the segment between really left and really right (ie. the intuitive definition is the definition), the so-called left is at around 9, and the right is around 10,5.

And then they tell you the truth is somewhere in between, around 9,64.