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https://www.washingtonpost.com...95fca3343_story.html
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Beatification Candidate![]() |
yes.
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(self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity ![]() |
Good grief, yes! Think any of them will listen??
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Has Achieved Nirvana![]() |
I wish they would, but they won't. Because, for most of them, this is about ego. | |||
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Minor Deity![]() |
Not that I disagree with the op-ed, but ... Suppose some these candidates run for the Senate instead, would they still receive the same amount and intensity of press coverages? Would pundits and columnists still talk and write about them? Would the people still listen to or read about them? It’s like telling a Wall Street investment banker “you should be a social worker because the world needs social workers more than it does investment bankers,” but then the world turns around and materially rewards an investment banker a hundred folds more than it does a social worker. It’s liked telling elite universities to accept more disadvantaged students, then rather than praise, the world shrugs at the universities that actually serve a lot of disadvantaged students. The voters say they want X, but then they actually reward Y and not X. In some sense, the politicians are just pursuing what the voters will actually reward, rather than what the voters say they want.
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That argument doesn’t work in this context. Unless getting elected isn’t the goal. If they all have equal chances, they have only a 1 in 23 chance of being nominated, let alone elected. (And Tulsi Gabbard, not even that.) If they ran for Senate, the chances of getting nominated would be much higher. So, getting elected isn’t their goal. Sure, they’d love to win, but that’s a lottery ticket. They’re running for other reasons. | |||
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Yes. I am so sick of ego.
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