There's no question who won this debate. But there is a significant questiopn as to whether this will impinge on the leaden mass of the unthinking as they gravitate toward the polls of the nation like so many leaden half-digested rat-burgers on their way to the sewer.

What I mean by unthinking, just so as to make it clear, is those who prefer to use a fear-response, or a fixed idea, or a slogan, or osme other kind of symbolism, in the place of ordinary clear thinking.

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