(September 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(September 6, 2016 at 1:23 pm)JuliaL Wrote: "“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Douglas Adams- Restaurant at the End of the Universe
That's some catch, that catch 22.
Joseph Heller- Catch 22
For 2200 years, China tested its bureaucrats.
We have some high school popularity contest judged by an ignorant student body of, at best, average intelligence.
It sucks but it's what we've got.
Sure she's a crook.
But he's a nut.
No, Nixon was a crook, Reagan was a crook. At best Hillary is a jaywalker. Now, again, I really don't want to hear shit about her because the same bullshit scare tactics were aimed at Obama for the past 8 years. And even prior to that the GOP has sold the same cold war bullshit slurs about all of the left on every issue. As a party, as voters, we are still on the right side of history. The parties flipped since the 60s and the GOP has been wrong ever since.
The parties didn't flip in the 1960s. That is such a simplistic non-understanding of the different dynamics of the parties. Unless you think FDR was like today's Republicans. Which obviously isn't true. Hillary is also obviously a crook. She did everything crooked possible to fuck over Bernie Sanders.