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Leftists for Trump: What Is to Be Done About These Insufferable Nihilists?
The left, generally, needs to figure out how to address issues outside the horserace of competing talking points. There’s no chance that Slate will contribute in any meaningful way.
Hey, that’s not fair. Can I be excused to go watch that even if I’m not going to support Trump?
They wouldn’t be a party with HRC at the head of the ticket, that’s for damn sure.
I agree that a Trump presidency would be a disaster and I’m never voting for him. But that’s not enough to get me to swallow the vomit welling up in my throat and vote for Hillary.
As much effort as we put into politics, it’s amazing how few effective solutions we have. It’s more like our interactions with our political system are just attempts to keep things from going too far off the rails.
This is not a good system as far as good governance is concerned. Which is sad because that’s all it is.
Obama endorses Clinton in online video
“So, how can we reach all those young ones that somehow got so fired up by that crusty old Sanders?”
“The internet, Sir. They get their news online now.”
“Ahhhhhhh…”
At what point do people realize their hyperbole regarding how first world their first world nation is are ludicrous?
The US is far from perfect, but the status quo is still OK and the Supreme Court nomination will have a much greater effect on your life than the president will; unless you are dependent on federal income, in which case you want to preserve the status quo and not burn the mother down.
While I’m not happy with the outcome, the primary runs on delegate count, and Clinton won in that contest. I wanted Sanders to win the primary, but he didn’t, and I wouldn’t want him to win by the political leadership telling Clinton to drop out as lava suggested, because that also would be political suicide for the Dems.
Wow. Way to double-down on your privilege!
What are you going to do when John McAfee gets the Libertarian nod?
There’s the perverse part of me that really, really wants McAfee to get the nom, because I just want to hear an actual presidential candidate explain that he didn’t actually murder Gary Faull while running a drug lab on his compound full of hookers and guns in Belize. But I think Johnson’s got this one, and he’s just the kind of Trump apocalypse insurance we need.
Um. Did I miss a memo?
Never thought I’d say this, but check out Trump’s feed. Clear sign that this will be his approach… every Clinton tweet now says “Crooked Hillary.” It already came out that he’s going to hammer on whitewater. Wonder how the rest of his narrative will play out?
I was thinking as the isolationist candidate he might go after TPP as a “crooked” deal (lots of republicans don’t like it either), maybe look back at how Bill Clinton gave away the Federal store to get NAFTA passed by reps whose districts were squarely opposed to it. But that may be too nuanced for Trump.
I would pay good money to watch a Trump/McAfee debate.
And that’s an understatement of remarkable proportions.
You may not agree with the piece (and I don’t agree with all of it), but it feels relevant here:
Bernie Sanders or bust? That’s a stance based on privilege (via The Guardian)
Write in Rand Paul, or myself.
Try asking again, but with different words and somewhere else.
As Glenn Reynolds is wont to say, solutions which provide insufficient opportunity for graft are almost never implemented in the USA.
Yup. And we’re all kind of broken toys and have a ton of cognitive flaws.
If we design based on who we pretend to be then we get the mess we’re in.
We need to design based on who we really are. We already have a well designed set of methodologies that we use to offset flaws in the ways we think. We just need to apply it to governance and life.
