RE: Yeah - There's No Difference Between Hillary and the Drumpfuck.
July 21, 2016 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2016 at 1:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 21, 2016 at 12:33 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Besides, as I've said before, is that really the President we want? One who puts forward a manifesto based on the likelihood of stuff getting passed, rather than on what the American people actually deserve?
Not aimed at me, but I can't help but answer. Yes! I'm going to strike the bit about what we deserve from consideration because, frankly, depending on who you ask we might deserve a whole hell of alot of shit that no one in their right mind would want. It's just too vague to be of use to me, in answering the question.
Speaking strictly of the things I -do- want, stronger...smarter environmental protections, for example. It's easy to say. It's easy to make the case for why we need them. A significant number of people want that....but unless we can find a way to make it profitable..obscenely profitable, it won't pass in our current climate. It's not just a partisan issue, even. Profitability is a crucial aspect of sustainability. Nothing that is unprofitable is sustainable. This immediately invites questions along the lines of asking the fox to guard the hens...but that doesn't make it any less true.
So yes, I want someone to put forward a manifesto that has at least a snowballs chance in hell of passing (in addition to a great many other qualifications). Because if it doesn't..they may as well save the ink and the paper. We don't -live- in the same world that our ideologies dream up, and those two worlds aren't going to become the same world unless we stair step our way there. We're so in love with the idea of a grand slam we've forgotten that it's unrealistic...and that we're not electing the President of Dreamland, but of the USA (you could see that in Sanders -and- Trumps campaigns, btw).
If somebody can do that, propose the things I want -and- a realistic manner in which they could be achieved...I might just vote for that person. So long as outr political establishment feels that they can prop up a salesman without an actual product...I don't vote at all. I can go down to a used appliance store if a need my shyster fix...and even there, at least I'll walk away with a dryer that works half the time.
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