Post #423,204
4/5/18 9:10:05 PM
4/5/18 9:10:05 PM
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I’ll give you this:
This week's WI Supreme Court election, AL and PA's earlier special elections also offer some signs of hope that would, in my view, be absent had HRC won. That may well be true. Indeed, the folks over at “Lawyers, Guns & Money” have a lively counterfactual thread going this week on the same theme. Certainly the horrific spectacle of the commonweal being sacked has served to focus the attention of a certain number of people who might have subscribed two years ago to the “no difference between the two parties” codswallop. Whether the raising of consciousness will compensate for the vandalism at present being committed will depend not merely on the number of consciousnesses raised, the altitudes thereby attained and the concomitant participation in November, but also, contrariwise, on the degree of irreparable injury inflicted upon the society by these brigands before their riot begins to be curtailed. cordially,
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Post #423,216
4/6/18 1:27:48 PM
4/6/18 1:27:48 PM
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In the final analysis, there is a fundmental flaw in all democracies.
My friend and airplane mechanic likes to say, "No matter how you define intelligence, half the people are below average." And therein is the fatal flaw of democracies. In British and US democracies, the people with below average intelligence have an equal say in how we are governed as the people with higher than average intelligence. That is how we end up with Brexit and Trump.
Given the plight of our democracy, I think it would be wise to take advantage of the public records to identify the irredeemably stupid and prohibit them from voting. A good start at purging the unwise from our voter registration rolls would be to check just two available records: reported household income with IRS and party affiliation in voter registration. Anyone with household income less than $400.000/year and has registered as a Republican has proven themselves incapable of forming well considered opinions and should consequently face a lifetime ban on voting. bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #423,218
4/6/18 1:34:50 PM
4/6/18 1:34:51 PM
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Hillary got substantially more votes. Just sayin'...
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Post #423,220
4/6/18 1:51:23 PM
4/6/18 1:51:23 PM
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Basically, its the 10% at the midpoint that matter.
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Post #423,221
4/6/18 2:02:07 PM
4/6/18 2:02:07 PM
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Did she get a star for that?
bcnu,
Mikem
It's mourning in America again.
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Post #423,234
4/6/18 9:21:20 PM
4/6/18 9:21:20 PM
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well she used to get 5 stars, now she is down label
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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Post #423,224
4/6/18 4:17:13 PM
4/6/18 4:17:13 PM
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There are too many oxymoronic attributes at work, though
The ~same bunch who don’t believe in the math, stats and other research into climate change … assiduously Believe in the relationship of one’s Financial Stats: as harbingers of your superior-homo-sap er, Status. Fav of My Gramma’s koans, for ex.: “Those big men in Washington know more than you do!” (alas moi’s juvenile mind had not yet conceived the riposte, “cha. cha. cha.”)
’s OK though, just another elderly White supremacist talking to herself.
Even Will Shakespeare could not convert those immune to language logically spake; even KISS is a multi-edged sword. Alas. We likely go out mewling and pewling..
(Bach’s cantata #140 “Sleepers Awake” kinda summarized--well beyond Corp religion--our plight) yet no one has learned how to produce that Conscious Shock™
aka epiphany, within masses of homo-saps gathered around nightly movin' pictures on their (new-cave) walls.
curl grad V=0?
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Post #423,233
4/6/18 9:20:08 PM
4/6/18 9:20:08 PM
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there is distinct differences.I saw a talking head Dem stridently proclaim
that unfettered global free trade without tariffs is an absolute must have. Yup times have changed all right, "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
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