12-20-2016, 02:52 PM
(12-20-2016, 01:49 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: It was worth getting rid of the filibuster for appointments, since then the Republicans could not attain their goal of shutting down the government. But now that we have an abnormally bad president appointing alligators to the swamp, it doesn't seem so good. But having such a bad president is not normal. The people are to blame for electing him. The people will get the bad government they deserve.
As H. L. Mencken once said, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." We may have reached that point this time. We'll see soon enough.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.