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RE: Winning By a Landslide and other politicspeak
October 23, 2020 at 12:08 pm
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(October 23, 2020 at 12:04 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's the worry. That we simply can't be as nimble as we need to be. That the rate of problems accruing and change in general exceeds the rate at which the human creature is capable of making change as a group.
I was just talking with The Wife about the idea of all of human issues as a big Chuck E Cheese Wack-a-Mole game. If every human being was actively engaged (and lets go beyond the confines of just voting - because voting may or may not be a factual waste of a persons time) in whacking moles, might there still be a number of moles that overwhelm us? Just how many tickets can we earn, what's our prize budget?
If you stay home and never take a swing at the moles, you can forget about prizes.
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RE: Winning By a Landslide and other politicspeak
October 23, 2020 at 12:17 pm
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Yeah, ofc, whatever whacking moles means we have to do it to get tickets - but consider that context again.
If every swinging richard went out there and whacked moles we'd get...what? A federal minimum wage that addresses poverty a decade ago. That's not exactly promising. Now, I think that we can move faster - but I admit that this is more hope and aspirational goal than what reality has demonstrated to me. It's just not enough tickets, literally and figuratively.
That's the rub - we have people arguing at the highest level over something that was (and could only be true) many years ago. We're not on top of the backlog, and our most progressive option is to handle issues from 2010? I hope that's not compounding or exponential.
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