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Bernie Sanders possibly running against President Trump is starting to scare investors: strategist
Americans generally hate intellectuals and want a president they can share a beer with. Even Obama, who was unquestionably intelligent, had a folksy side that appealed to the common man and woman. Similarly with Bill Clinton and Bush. Nothing though was quite so sad as seeing Hillary Clinton or John Kerry try to be folksy. Ten-point plans to fix healthcare that might actually work bore the electorate. Trump also has a lowest-common denominator appeal.
What’s strange is the GOP’s wholesale embrace of election tampering by a hostile foreign power. What happened to patriotism and loyalty? The Nixon era GOP would have recognized this and put country first.
And the dems wholesale embracing of domestic election tampering and trying to nullify an election. What happened to patriotism and accept the election results and move on honorably?
@Gary1952 The difference is no credible intelligence source has said that the GOP's claim that undocumented immigrants have tipped the scales for Democrats in past elections is true while every intelligence agency has said that the Russians interfered in the 2016 election to get Donald Trump elected and Trump embraced this tampering publicly in the media.
I wrote a paper in an undergraduate American history class on anti-intellectualism in the US. Such a phenomenon would not be found in France, whose history I know quite well. I dare say our "American exceptionalism" includes some character traits that many would see as deficits.
I wrote a paper in an undergraduate American history class on anti-intellectualism in the US. Such a phenomenon would not be found in France, whose history I know quite well. I dare say our "American exceptionalism" includes some character traits that many would see as deficits.
@davidmoran: I did read Hofstadter's book for that paper. It was long ago when history departments had real classes, such as a two-course sequence in American intellectual history. As a kid growing up, I recall Adlai Stevenson being criticized as too smart to be elected president.
I predict deadlock in the Democratic convention resulting in the nomination of Secretary Clinton who will beat Trump this time. Voters ususally vote their wallets but this year they're fed up with Trump's lack of character and vote for the candidate with integrity.
Somehow I assume you are being sarcastic, but if not, to God's ear.
Fwiw, I have a sib who heads an academic global econ / trade program in WDC and has served in two State depts (Carter and Clinton) in that capacity, and he is "strongly in favor of Biden for his experience; I and others we know do not trust Sanders, and he has no foreign policy experience ...."
For those who are Krugman fans, there's an interesting debate/discussion worth watching between him and socialist economist/historian Richard Wolff about Sanders' "socialism" and what it really is. Think Denmark, not Russia:
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Thanks for the link.
we have many candidates who are more than half-ass-intelligent ... that's ain't the problem
I know! Everyone knows intellectuals don't drink!
>> What happened to patriotism and loyalty?
Huh?
>> The Nixon era GOP would have recognized this and put country first.
This sounds like you're high, and/or weren't paying attention then.
'real classes' gone bye-bye, you are charging?
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Fwiw, I have a sib who heads an academic global econ / trade program in WDC and has served in two State depts (Carter and Clinton) in that capacity, and he is "strongly in favor of Biden for his experience; I and others we know do not trust Sanders, and he has no foreign policy experience ...."