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Nonsense. You can totally say, "I will never vote for a person who says they are immune to bias". Well, that leaves most politicians available to consider still
by quadrangle 11y ago
Nonsense. You can totally say, "I will never vote for a person who says they are immune to bias". Well, that leaves most politicians available to consider still. All people have biases. Most politicians will admit at least that fact.
Here's another: "never vote for someone who claims to be omniscient and basically know everything". How about this: "Never vote for someone who claims to never need advice from others". I support "never vote for someone who claims to have all their decisions dictated to them by God".
There are all sorts of extremely low bars that can and should be set. We can easily find tons of people who pass them. Anyone who doesn't pass very basic requirements like this should indeed be disqualified.
To be clear, if Hillary came out and said, "I never meant to say I was beyond bias or that the time and money from my supporters has no influence at all. I'm human. But I meant that there's no quid pro quo. I'm not specifically going to do whatever Wall Street asks, I'm going to do research and listen to other views as well when making decisions," then I would immediately say "okay, she retracted / qualified her previous claims, so she passes that minimum test of acknowledging one's own bias after all".
Currently, she seems to be saying, "oh, I got millions from financiers and gave lots of speeches to Wall Street, but that doesn't influence my views at all". That disqualifies her. Nobody should support anyone who claims such bullshit.
- cmurf 11y agoEvery candidate has broken one or more of you "never vote for" rules.
- veidr 11y agoThat's simply not true. I count 4 rules in the post, and most of the candidates for US president this year have not broken any of them. (It's even arguable that Clinton hasn't; she doesn't claim immunity to all bias, she just claims that receiving millions of dollars from the titans of the financial industry somehow doesn't bias her.)
- awqrre 11y agoIt's definitely possible that all this money doesn't affect her positions and that the contributors already know that she would make decisions in their favors (as opposed to other candidates)... so either way it is bad.
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