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...but if you were a smart homeowner, wouldn't you want to elect a 'useful idiot' to carry out your desired policy? Just because the policy makers are dumb, do
by tangjurine 5y ago
...but if you were a smart homeowner, wouldn't you want to elect a 'useful idiot' to carry out your desired policy?
Just because the policy makers are dumb, doesn't mean that the voters behind them are too.
- xyzzyz 5y agoThe risk of collateral damage by a bumbling fool who just happens to stumble upon your favored policy is way too high. She might do what you want in matter X, but might also do completely wrongheaded moves in matters Y, Z, or even in X itself from another angle. All you need for confirmation is to look at what Seattle looks like today: I doubt that there is a single voter who can look at the city and honestly say “I support policies of the city government in entirety, and the current state of affairs is to my liking”.
- testfoobar 5y ago"According to the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States#cite_note-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_the_United_States#...
- Izikiel43 5y agoIt seems you haven't been around Seattle DT. I'm from a 3rd world country and it's really bad even by my standards.