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>I personally don't have serious qualms with a Jeffersonian paternalistic republic, so long as I have the power to vote the "parents" out of power when they fai

>I personally don't have serious qualms with a Jeffersonian paternalistic republic, so long as I have the power to vote the "parents" out of power when they fail to represent my interests. Well that's the real trick, isn't it? The DNC had already picked their nominee a year or so in advance, which makes one's vote a "take it or leave it" proposition. In fairness, the RNC had probably secretly anointed Jeb, but their ability to dictate events was weakened by their nomination design. Look for them to borrow the superdelegate concept from the DNC.

nerdponx 10y ago
I'm actually very curious to see what the equivalent RNC emails would look like. Was this all planned, or were they panicking? The Trump campaign emails would probably also be fun.
- tmaly 10y ago
  I thought Trump did not use emails.
  - hga 10y ago
    Trump the man, or his campaign? It's hard to imagine his campaign functioning without something like email, then again, I'm old fashioned and prefer it to all other forms of person to person/small groups of people methods, and the Democrats right now are teaching the rest of the world how not to do InfoSec.... I mean, how do you draft position papers (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/ https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/) without at minimum running them past a nuts and bolts editor?
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Roboprog 10y ago
As much as I dislike Trump, it is pretty amusing watching many of the insiders squirm, since they don't like him either. (this presidential election seems to come down to a "Simpson's Treehouse of Horror" scenario where you must choose one tentacled alien or the other) It's not hard to see a lot of the disenfranchised casting a "F@ck Y@@!" vote just to upset the apple cart for the well off. There was an interesting program on about a month ago about the Trump nomination, and who to "blame" for it. http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/blame-elites-trump-phenomenon http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/blame-elites-tr...

nerdponx 10y ago

I'm actually very curious to see what the equivalent RNC emails would look like. Was this all planned, or were they panicking? The Trump campaign emails would probably also be fun.

tmaly 10y ago
I thought Trump did not use emails.
- hga 10y ago
  Trump the man, or his campaign? It's hard to imagine his campaign functioning without something like email, then again, I'm old fashioned and prefer it to all other forms of person to person/small groups of people methods, and the Democrats right now are teaching the rest of the world how not to do InfoSec.... I mean, how do you draft position papers (https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/ https://www.donaldjtrump.com/policies/) without at minimum running them past a nuts and bolts editor?

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Roboprog 10y ago

As much as I dislike Trump, it is pretty amusing watching many of the insiders squirm, since they don't like him either. (this presidential election seems to come down to a "Simpson's Treehouse of Horror" scenario where you must choose one tentacled alien or the other) It's not hard to see a lot of the disenfranchised casting a "F@ck Y@@!" vote just to upset the apple cart for the well off. There was an interesting program on about a month ago about the Trump nomination, and who to "blame" for it. http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/blame-elites-trump-phenomenon http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/blame-elites-tr...