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[Tom Johnson]

[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.


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On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Steven A Smith <sasmyth at 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
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