Cog wrote:Tanada wrote:MD wrote:As things stand at this moment, I am almost ready to support her candidacy.
Sanders comes in a close second.
Yeah, I know. Opposite positions at so many levels.
Carly has the leadership skills, Sanders has the ideology.
Do we need ideologues, or do we need strong leaders?
No matter what your ideology without leadership skill it is a moot point. What we need now is actual leadership, because as we fall off the plateau a lot of hard choices will have to be made and decisive actions taken. I have little to no confidence in most of the candidates to display decisive behavior when the crunch comes.
So you want a dictator who has no regard for the US Constitution? That sounds just great.
I hate to have to be the one to break it to you Cog, but we have not followed the actual Constitution for about a hundred years, and as much as I hate that nothing I can do will change it.
Progressives hate the Constitution and have spent the last century deconstructing it bit by bit whenever and wherever they could get away with it. The US Congress no longer even says Boo when the President decides to do something unconstitutional, they just collect their cut and posture for the camera's.
We live in the Authoritarian Age, the time of Constitutional restraint has passed. I didn't expect to get here so soon, but we have because it did. This is not exactly a new thought for me, I wrote about it on here at least as far back as 2008. I don't like what my country has become, but I accept it is reality.
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