tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post140863430133988928..comments2024-03-15T02:14:38.309-07:00Comments on bloginafog: Vote for Donald !Woflhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10215884001340285492noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-65629805500237731562016-10-18T08:23:58.421-07:002016-10-18T08:23:58.421-07:00Auban, rhetorically, philosophically, and logicall...Auban, rhetorically, philosophically, and logically, you have two essays here: one an encomium of a man, whose rise to political heights baffles and confounds, saddens and terrifies those of good will in the United States, those who "fact check" their conditioned views as much as they can, those who know that some things are true by common convention and scientific evidence, who know that non-stop lies and crowd demagoguery do not make a good political leader; the other is a rather good analysis of the American system of presidential elections, which until the election of George W. Bush worked rather smoothly, albeit not without enormous violence. The South in 1860, long before polling and television, knew it was powerless under the Constitution to stop the election of Abraham Lincoln, which the South knew was going to happen that summer, nine months before it started the Civil War. The electoral college, flawed as it is, is intended to acknowledge the sovereignty and importance, the regional integrity and individuality, of its constituent States (the United States despite its vast cultural and global adoration and its enormous military might is really very, very heterogeneous), who have their States' rights and their Federal obligations. As it stands now the system virtually assures the defeat of Donald Trump. As Donald Trump has shown so well day after day since July, ranting is not rhetoric, not logic, and not political philosophical policy. It is emotionally driven vitriol. Your rants on Trump and Clinton are not worthy of you. Look to narcissism, my friend, a habit of the public masturbator and outrageous skeptic Diogenes of Sinope.Marcus Billsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11308066836427766909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3577091962812282559.post-87756789885977405302016-10-18T03:06:10.384-07:002016-10-18T03:06:10.384-07:00I liked your piece about the voting system. If Mr ...I liked your piece about the voting system. If Mr Trump publicly promised to systematically destroy all trace of the electoral college system that makes votes for candidates outside the duopoly effectively worthless, or said causes protests/pressure group material he might be a worthwhile candidate. If he made Proportional Representation the bedrock of the new system then fine, it would be a late content led announcement and a worthy one. And it would be an actual policy too. Alas too many of his announcements have been policy-free hot air which have inflated a febrile media circus and contributed to mud-slinging personality politics and he has been in the media for several decades, too long for old mud to not get slung at him. It will not take much old mud to stick to him to sink him and the Republican Party given how the system is gerrymandered. Bearzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11288030980271753436noreply@blogger.com