Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "CNN"
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Doug Richardson
I forget the exact psephology, just which state(s) got switched, but yes, the Greens already proved that in 2016, didn't they?
That seems less of a likelihood this time around, I'd guess. If the election is even faintly fair it will be a numerical replay of Reagan-McGovern, or what was that FDR one, "As go Vermont and Maine, so go Vermont and Maine"?
A few people are still musing about the possibility of Trump stealing it, but even at this late date they don't realize how stupid he is.
I met a lady online this morning who lives in Orange County, California. I don't know whether she wears running shoes but she was little and old. She seemed to believe that the President is a genius. He isn't. He's the loud proud kid who scrapes into Mensa by a hair, so they make him Chairman of the Comic-Book Committee just to make him shut up.
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Doug Richardson
I don't have a horse in that race. 2016 is over and gone.
I think the key thing about both Biden's VP search and the Democratic primary race has been the huge field of talent the Democrats are showing off. Trump, by contrast, has only had three, perhaps four, capable people in all his circles all along, and the only one who remains, Mnuchin, has still managed to make a fool of himself remarkably often. He's a right-winger, but he's competent, and, together with Powell at the Fed, the only thing keeping the damn country afloat amidst the shit-storm.
The Democratic Presidential primary candidates are a fine show of cabinet material, eight down to that sweet but also intelligent spiritualist lady. (I can't think where I'd put her in any Cabinet, but I'd certainly have her, Marianne Williamson, in for coffee every now and then, and she should be a fixture guest at state dinners...)
All those possible vice-presidential ladies? Every one of them is fine Cabinet, Senate, Ambassador, Governor or other public service material. I very much hope that the excellent Stacy Abrams will be elected to the Senate and, if she succeeds there, then become President down the road. She is clearly a first-class intellect, a capable organizer, and through and through a very decent person.
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But he's up against a real conundrum: his career so far has been a good deal more honest than his father's. His father started out as an anarchist but then bowed down to the Christianists on getting the government into your bedroom in order to woo the extremist "Evangelical" vote.
Rand, the kid, has avoided that, mainly by avoiding rural peckerwoods as a constituency, and indeed some of what he has done reflects a genuine spirit of libertarianism. Dentists certifying themselves is not perhaps the happiest development I can imagine for the health of the people, but at lest one can understand his principle.
Now, however, he has had thoughts of being a national figure. He might if he stays principled and if the GOP splits, into a Blue Dog Democrat majority and two principled reactionary and libertarian minorities. If he doesn't do that, and if the GOP doesn't evolve in that or some similar way, he has no future as a Republican without running on the government-in-your-bedroom ticket.
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@CeeJay611
Well said, but you're still left with the problem "...but if the salt hath lost its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men."
The Priests at the time of the reconstruction of the First Temple faced a similar problem. Jerusalem was ruled by a flaky Establishment and religious observance seemed to them false of heart. Their response, in despair, was the one Biblical text most flawed, the pamphlet demanding reform, magically, but quite falsely, claimed to have been "found" in the wreckage of the Temple being torn down, the cobbled-up book of Leviticus. Later this was movingly quoted by Matthew (5:13), above.
As in Leviticus's time, we have corrupt and incompetent White House -- and Trump's incompetence has probably been America's salvation -- and a louche religious machine. A loud but stumbling fifth of the population, a heavy chunk of America, is not working properly.
There are two heralds of good news. The ship is sound and the passengers are decent. The Constitution is resilient for all its flaws, and the American people(s) are decent and concerned. CJ611 is an example of the latter.
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