07-29-2019, 01:35 PM
(07-29-2019, 01:23 PM)David Horn Wrote:(07-29-2019, 12:08 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: Liberal boomers: if you hate trump then run a fair primary and allow a berniecrat to be the nominee or at the very least biden/berniecrat vp instead of trying to ram harris down our throats like your currently trying to do.
If anything, the nomination cycle this time is too wide open. If I had to guess at this stage, it really won't be Harris, though she's more than qualified. I'm looking for Warren or a non-Biden pragmatist … depending on the mood when the votes start rolling in.
We are going to see the field culled to four or five meaningful nominees before the start of 2020.
Should the nominee be Biden or Sanders, then it will be necessary that the Democrats nominate some competent understudy to be President in the event of... In this case Kamala Harris might be a good choice for not clearing the political bench. Adam Schiff probably succeeds her in the US Senate.. well, you know how California politics are.
After Trump it will, I hope, be back to basics-- that constituent service again becomes more important than attention to lobbyists, civility return to political discussion, demagoguery be discredited, expectations shrink some, and that public service again be more important than personality. Donald Trump seems to be showing us how to do everything wrong.
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.