I'm also concerned about people who think smashing up Chicago and Detroit and telling ~50% of the voting public that they're morons and their opinion is irrelevantis almost as concerning -- at least if we want to retain the slightest respect for democracy.
I've long had the view that democracy is a nice idea scuppered by the fact that people as a whole are not actually all that nice (and even more importantly, almost never even dimly well-informed on any given issue and I of course include myself in that), and 2016 has left me feeling a bit vindicated.
I'm voting for a return to the days when the Civil Service ran everything the same way regardless of the government, which I think is rather preferable to a return to totalitarian states or absolutist monarchies.
(I've long had the view that democracy is a nice idea scuppered by the fact that people as a whole are not actually all that nice (and even more importantly, almost never even dimly well-informed on any given issue and I of course include myself in that), and 2016 has left me feeling a bit vindicated.
I'm voting for a return to the days when the Civil Service ran everything the same way regardless of the government, which I think is rather preferable to a return to totalitarian states or absolutist monarchies.
boris the spider,
Sat 12 Nov 2016, 17:32,
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