Post #417,874
4/24/17 12:05:46 PM
4/24/17 12:05:47 PM
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
Democrats need a big tent to win elections. Purity tests are for losers.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #417,879
4/24/17 2:42:47 PM
4/24/17 2:42:47 PM
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Wasn't that the very advice that gave us Trump?
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #417,880
4/24/17 2:52:31 PM
4/24/17 2:52:31 PM
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Only because we are a republic and not a democracy. :)
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #417,881
4/24/17 3:32:22 PM
4/24/17 3:32:22 PM
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I think it's time we adopted France's model.
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #417,882
4/24/17 10:38:12 PM
4/24/17 10:38:12 PM
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A whole lot of people did let the Perfect kill the Good . . .
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Post #417,886
4/25/17 9:53:42 AM
4/25/17 9:53:42 AM
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Hillary Clinton === Good is a bit of a stretch.
As is Bernie === Perfect.
The Good was Bernie.
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #417,896
4/25/17 1:43:36 PM
4/25/17 1:43:36 PM
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Yes, but Bernie wasn't available.
Or, are you still convinced that the Dread Butch Hillary would be just as bad as the Lier in Chief currently in office?
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Post #417,902
4/25/17 4:45:48 PM
4/25/17 4:45:49 PM
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It's not that.
Drumpf is insane. He has neither core values nor convictions. He's only dangerous because of the criminals he's surrounded himself with. Hillary, OTOH, has convictions. Bad ones. The General Election of 2016 can be added to future textbooks as an excellent example of a Hobson's Choice.
bcnu, Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #417,904
4/25/17 6:35:16 PM
4/25/17 6:52:04 PM
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Concur, to this extent:
Whether--or Not--the "Democratic Party" as presently constituted, as notoriousy Apt-to become bogged-down in internecine food-fights (over this Perfection cliché), as so often, too: is the internal excuse to drop further into the mire of yet another un-parseable word salad ... indefinitely.
IF this group Was-then say, both Able--and willing!--to fight for Bernie over the too-hubristically deemed Shoe-in-Hillary, at the level of pre-Primaries? It Didn't do that; it may not Yet be capable of parsing Its Own {presumed conflicting 'Platform') in any next contest.. etc. etc. qed, I guess. (You have too, pointed out these endemic anti-qualities of the Demo crowd, of course.)
Repos have learned , habitually, to hang-together even if, re the Repo next to you (his psyche Stinks, say?) ... easily to counter the expectable fragmentation of Demos (who after all, are supposed to be displaying Democratic and not Lock-step-ic MOs) ..that relatively sane viewpoint which goes-with the Territory of both: a Republic and also too, any "democracy", I wot.
{{sigh}} CAN the Grown-ups of the World possibly shame these puffed-up Man-child Movers/Shakers to learn the difficult Wo/Manly art of cogitation, AT LONG LAST?? . . . . /Me doubts..
Ed: oTpy
I Get so Confused :-/
(In 'Schools, they never TOLD moi!) ..just HOW hypocritical-all-along have been the koans of Murican democracy concepts AS PRACTICED. Practiced, we now all see: by legions of not-very-principled ..."Citizens"-in hijacked-name Only. Never emitted a peep, my 'tutors', about the sub-sets in these "legions" of men-children, "Adults" ..only in the status of their physiognomies, yet unable to think critically at all.
Drumpf must be the Epitome of cramming all such negative-qualities into One deranged scion of a Martinet ... (an also shallow, One-Up> ..obsessed Vater from the Vaterland.)
{{Sheesh!!}}
Edited by Ashton
April 25, 2017, 06:47:10 PM EDT
Edited by Ashton
April 25, 2017, 06:52:04 PM EDT
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Post #417,908
4/25/17 8:26:04 PM
4/25/17 8:26:04 PM
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she hasn't been convicted yet <rimshot/>
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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