Comments | laughingimp: Politics and cynicism.

laughingimp

Politics and cynicism.

Feb 09, 2008 19:29

Lemme put this right out there, before anything else: I identify as "cynical." I don't think the majority of people are inherently good, I generally assume power corrupts, and I don't have a lot of faith in humanity's ability to advance civilization without immediate fear of death.

This mindset lends itself well to Chicago politics. Of course ( Read more... )

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laughingimp February 10 2008, 16:33:12 UTC

I took that survey, or one very similar to it, and I ended up with Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich at the top.

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joanofarq February 11 2008, 20:25:31 UTC

But then also mirroring that, won't the same be true if Hillary wins, then just replace the word black with the word woman.<<

I think that's close but not quite.

They won't vote for her just because she's Hilary. Or just because she's a Clinton . . .

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sillymagpie February 10 2008, 08:33:39 UTC

Interesting. I agree with you that Obama needs to provide answers ("hope" is not the answer), but his experience with the Chicago political machine may mean that he's better prepared to handle hard-core Washington politics than I thought...

I reluctantly support Hillary, on the grounds that she has some ideas and is a pretty good infighter. I wouldn't invite her over for coffee and a chat, but I think she'd make a qualified president.

joanofarq February 11 2008, 20:45:39 UTC

I spent the best years of my youth organizing for reform within the Teamsters union. Therefore, as far as PhD's in political cynicism are concerned, I graduated from Harvard -- you only went to Yale. : - ) (Actually, Teamsters and Chicago politics are so intertwined, or used to be, that you couldn't have one without the other so let's just say we have dual degrees ( ... )

The real problem... ctrlalttabby March 5 2008, 01:20:03 UTC

"but Obama? He'll lead us to the fucking Promised Land."

Is that a politician's "Promised Land" looks nothing like what the rest of us define as the Promised Land. It's similar to the software development example of designing a swing (best process I've seen in shown here: http://www.cerkit.com/cerkitBlog/content/binary/project.JPG ).

Re: The real problem... laughingimp March 5 2008, 19:05:36 UTC

Wow.

I work for a sportswear company, and telaryn works for a construction contractor. I'm prety sure that comic sums up all of both of our work-related problems.

On an unrelated note, it occurs to me that I know you in real life. May I add you?

Re: The real problem... ctrlalttabby March 5 2008, 21:21:52 UTC

Sure. :)