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If only humans would elect reflective people like yourself. Alas, we are saddled with a parliament of idiots and whores at highest elective office, as we have b
by aswanson 12y ago
If only humans would elect reflective people like yourself. Alas, we are saddled with a parliament of idiots and whores at highest elective office, as we have been throughout history.
- GabrielF00 12y agoTake a look at David Halberstam's book The Best and the Brightest. The people who made bad policy decisions with respect to Vietnam were among the finest products of the American educational system of that era.
- aswanson 12y agoAn indictment of what passes for education in the country, if nothing else. However, I wasn't restricting my judgement of bad leadership to the U.S.; look at the brutality of early Rome, kings throughout history, leaders of the "people" like Mao and the Khmer Rouge, or present-day plutonium-assassinator kleptocrat Putin. People, in general, grant power to the lowest of humanity.
- pekk 12y agoIf all it takes to convince you that someone is a good candidate is for them to say one paragraph of nice sounding words in public, then you are the problem with the electorate.
- aswanson 12y agoI'd agree. But he wrote at least 3 paragraphs. So I'm absolved of guilt.