Isn't that the problem though? That America has collectively decided that there are two sides, and those two sides supposedly adhere to "basic ideas", that a presidential election is nothing more than a contest about personalities and sound bites... People don't even bother to dig into the details of what each candidate stands for anymore, they just assume a bunch of shit based on which party a candidate is affiliated with and then vote on who has the most soundbites repeated by the media.

This, a thousand times this! The whole exercise is conjecture, and it could be that you'd be stuck with a much less impressive list of songs, but you might just as well have a whole list of songs that were 10 times better than some of the Izzy stuff, or a bunch of songs on the same level. There's no way of knowing and the only thing you can say for sure is that it would've been different.

Looking at their post-GNR catalogue thought, I fully agree with Metallex, Izzy's solo stuff is just bland middle-of-the-road rock that fails to excite me in even the slightest way. Izzy's contributions to GNR were massive, and absolutely instrument to their overall sound, but looking at their respective solo careers, it seems to me that Izzy needed the GNR band environment to be inspired and pushed much more than any of the other guys. His talents are undeniable, but he doesn't seem to push himself very hard.

Americans often confuse Liberal with Progressive, but Liberal actually means 'favoring maximum individual liberty in political and social reform', so his gun policy is literally more liberal than Hillary's because he doesn't want to take anyone's personal freedom to have a gun away. On social issues he's been consistently more liberal than Hillary as well (being pro-gay marriage before it was fashionable, and all...). They are probably tied in how liberal they are regarding health care (not very liberal at all: they both support some form of healthcare mandate, meaning they both don't think it's up to an individual to decide if they want insurance). Saying Hillary is more Liberal than Bernie is... weird.

Another way to think about it: a liberal differs from a libertarian mostly in that the latter doesn't believe in market regulation while the former might or might not. On social issues, their positions should be very similar. If you compare Rand Paul with Bernie Sanders on those issues, that should be pretty obvious.

Being a true liberal is a good thing, it promotes personal responsibility and diversity much more than conservatism, which aims to drive society in a conformist direction by limiting individual freedom and agency.

Absolutely! Seriously, is there anyone who's seen this debate and still thinks Trump has any real ideas, or even remotely knows what he's talking about? Previous debates he won by shouting and insulting the other candidates, but when they stop holding back and play the game by his rules he holds up about as good as a wet paper towel. Will we be seeing Trump-bot meme's now?