The problem with assessing political candidates as you never know what they are like until they get a hold of power and by then, of course, it is too late. The decent ones wield power with restraint and humility and understand the limits of their own wisdom and also understand the inevitability of unintended consequences, they know they wont be in charge forever and so they tread lightly. But the bad ones go crazy and the more power they get, the crazier they go. Power is the drug theyve been searching for. Its why they went into politics and the first place, not to help you or improve our society, but to fill that empty space inside themselves. These are profoundly damaged people. Not a single one of them has a functional relationship with their fathers, not one. Unfortunately, people like that run a lot of this country right now. Theyve never had more power at any time in our history. Has this pandemic receives, becoming clear that cities and states that have cautiously reopened did
Political candidates as you never know what they are like until they get a hold of power and by then, of course, it is too late. The decent ones wield power with restraint and humility and understand the limits of their own wisdom and also understand the inevitability of unintended consequences, they know they wont be in charge forever and so they tread lightly. But the bad ones go crazy and the more power they get, the crazier theynd go. Power is the drug theyve been searching for. Its why they went into politics and the first place, not to help you or improve our society, but to fill that empty space inside themselves. These are profoundly damaged people. Not a single one of them has a functional relationship with their fathers, not one. Unfortunately, people like that run a lot of this country right now. Theyve never had more power at any time in our history. Ahas this pandemic receives, becoming clear that cities and states that have cautiously reopened did the right thing. They ar
The country, places you are glad you dont live right now. In those places, power drunk politicians crow about science but resolutely ignore its findings and they dont care what the data says bared their decisions are driven by ambition, political calculation, and the pure animal joy of controlling other peoples lives. Places like that are tightening their lockdowns even now. May be no place in the country represents the authoritarian approach more starkly than los angeles does. L. A. County has more residents than new york city but while new york has had close to 200,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, l. A. Has had only about 35,000 in the whole county. The real figures are certainly much higher than that and thats what we find every time but thats the point, so few people in l. A. Have died relatively speaking that we are not certain how many are infected. They are not sick enough to crowd hospitals, the citys Health Care System has never come close to collapsing. In los angeles, the
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