Bernie Sanders is a good, decent fellow. He says he won’t run as Independent if he loses the nomination. And this is the right thing to do even if some pouty contenders don’t get that.
I wish more people could say “Bernie Sanders is a decent fellow” or “Rick Perry kicked ass with his brilliant cancer speech” without planning to vote for either of them. Like in the old joke (“Sweetheart, bad news! That thing we thought was an orgasm turned out to be asthma”), what they confuse for politics is herd mentality. Everything is about choosing a group and then signaling one’s belonging to it at every opportunity.
I wish people got tired of their own orthodoxy every once in a while. I wish that instead of making a decision once and for all and then superimposing it on every situation, they made decisions anew based on actual evidence and not on their need to belong to an imaginary community. I wish people were capable of holding two contradictory thoughts at the same time and not fear an imaginary expulsion from an invented group.
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“Make decisions anew . . . ” what a concept! Our democracy has become dysfunctional mainly because politicians believe they must state a position on every issue, and then rigidly maintain that position no matter what. It would be so much better if pols would attempt address every question that comes before a legislative body with a degree of objectivity. The result would be better decisions.
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