03-04-2020, 04:04 PM
It looks as if Joe Biden is going to win the Democratic nomination. Bernie Sanders didn't expand the left-side base of the Democratic Party, and he really needed about a 40-40-5-5-5-5 to win through a brokered convention. Buttegieg, Bloomberg, Klobuchar, and Steyer dropped out... and I would not be surprised if Warren does in a few hours.
We don't have the right to expect "perfect"; insisting upon the "perfect" instead of something adequate can stick one with something perfectly awful. If one is too fussy about pay and conditions on the job one ends up unemployed or doing something too easy for one's own good. If one is too fussy about politics one can end up with Donald Trump, whom some few consider perfect despite his serious deficiencies as a person and as a leader.
Perfection is for models in mathematics, science, and engineering.
We don't have the right to expect "perfect"; insisting upon the "perfect" instead of something adequate can stick one with something perfectly awful. If one is too fussy about pay and conditions on the job one ends up unemployed or doing something too easy for one's own good. If one is too fussy about politics one can end up with Donald Trump, whom some few consider perfect despite his serious deficiencies as a person and as a leader.
Perfection is for models in mathematics, science, and engineering.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.