The Glade 4.0

Cynicism alert:

We don't get decent people that want to be president because decent people don't want power - by the time they get to the point where they can actually be elected, they're part of the system, so thoroughly steeped in it that they've ceased being decent people.

Power corrupts, etc.

And the balkanization of America means that people that want to get elected are preying on that, encouraging that. If you don't get what you want, it's because the Evil Other Guys made it so.

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That's just a platitude that essentially makes the problem unsolvable.

Dwight Eisenhower was a decent man - just as an example.

The fact is that too much cynicism and too much negative press (from all corners) means decent people do not wish to subject themselves to political life, for the most part.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The problem is unsolvable. Government means corruption and abuse and degeneration.

As long as the 'solution' involves government one is forcing it to be so.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

I think we also define an unreasonably high bar for decency. Nobody is perfect. Churchill was a drunk. Decency should be how you manage the country, not necessarily your personal failures - though clearly with out a track record how you judge someone's likely behaviour is tricky

s/government/people/g

cd /government
cd /congress
deltree *.* /y

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Holy shitsnacks!

If you are going to do it, do it right...

# rm -rf /*

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The Dude abides.

Keep in mind that this is what people consider informed and reasoned opinion.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Which part?

The part that wants to flush every last politician in washington and start over with good, educated, people that want to help the citizens of the country?

Or the nerds part?

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Holy shitsnacks!

What makes you think there are objectively good educated people, and politicians as two separate divided identifiable classes?

Do you want a pet unicorn too?

I am pretty sure that most people that meet the criteria you want are looking at the self-important spurge of uninformed nonsense that most of the public engages in and are saying "lol **** you".



The part where you guffaw over your ability to type computer commands while congratulating yourself on your armchair indignation.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Fun is verboten.

This.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

The only people moral enough to be in government are anarchists at heart.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

Trump's undoubtedly losing at this point, but you know your poll is cooked against him when MSNBC calls you out for it.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

The only people truly qualified to lead would never accept the job.

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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The only best choice is to demand new candidates.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn