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This is a great way to communicate these ideas to people who would otherwise be hostile to them. I think you're right about this being the best thing about his
by colemannugent 9y ago
This is a great way to communicate these ideas to people who would otherwise be hostile to them. I think you're right about this being the best thing about his presidency.
Let's make this a thing.
- anigbrowl 9y agoIt won't become A Thing since Trump's administration is an objectively abrupt departure from the mean. It's irrational to argue that democratically elected government (in the general sense, not the US instance in particular) is fundamentally less reliable than the private sector where accountability and influence are more narrowly distributed.
- Consultant32452 9y agoDon't worry, maybe not the next term, but a Republican will win the Presidency again, and then we can switch to that name. Replace Donald Trump with Paul Ryan, or Mike Pence, or Newt Gingrich, or Sara Palin. The repulsion will be the same.
- Sangermaine 9y agoA dishonest libertarian, what a surprise. Everyone, even Republicans, agrees that Trump is an anomaly. Liberals didn't like Romney, for example, but they didn't believe he was simply incompetent and incapable of basic governance in the way they do Trump. It's an almost childish view of the world to think that the fact that sometimes your side doesn't win means people should or will abandon faith in the ability of government to provide services. The very point of democracy is that you accept that sometimes you're not going to win.
- Consultant32452 9y agoI absolutely LOVE that you've defined "win" here as associating with the person you as an individual desire to associate with. I wonder if we could devise some sort of mechanism by which each individual person could be free to choose this on their own, then everyone could win.