[Bernie] "...had a significantly better chance to have kept the Donald out." I fear this was too speculative for me to put any money on the line in Vegas. If wishes were horses.....
T. ============================================ Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) Society of Professional Journalists <http://www.spj.org> *Check out It's The People's Data <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Its-The-Peoples-Data/1599854626919671>* http://www.jtjohnson.com t...@jtjohnson.com ============================================ On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > Unfortunately I agree. > > I was aware of this AS "thoughtless prey" after I got snookered into > helping Ronald Reagan displace Jimmy Carter for what turned out to be *all > the wrong reasons*... It was a painful but good lesson. I was a mere 22 > at the time. I could have known better, but I didn't. > > I raised my daughters very carefully to make sure they were not easy prey > for this kind of stuff, but my older daughter still fell to the populist > meme that suggested that Hillary was the best choice for president because > she is a woman and a democrat and "her time had come". She finally now > acknowledges that Bernie was very mishandled by both Hillary and the DNC > and that he had a significantly better chance to have kept the Donald > out... but she was adamant right up through the counting and shouting that > went on through January. > > We are too often the dreaded "sheeple". > > Baaahhaaaa! > > > > On 4/11/17 4:49 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > >> Steve writes: >> >> < They are popular *because* they are loudmouth jerks with no obvious >> true moral compass (is that what you mean by scumbag?). > >> >> There is a benefit when people that have examined their lives and the >> world around them lead those that are unable or unwilling to do the same. >> Without this leadership, some of the latter group are prone to >> irresponsible behavior that can bring harm to everyone. Unfortunately, >> there is limited incentive to provide this leadership, only the certainty >> of trouble otherwise. It is not clear to me how to rebuild these control >> systems for this century. It seems to be a burden on productive people. >> So what we have instead are populist scumbags who see that all of this >> ignorance can be exploited for personal gain. The deeper problem are all >> the thoughtless prey that need to be herded around and told what to think. >> The scumbags are just one kind of natural predator. >> >> Marcus >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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