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In a functioning democratic system which reflects the views of the electorate and is FPTP you should wind up with the parties of Tweedledee and the party of Tweedledum. (You can conclude that some form of PR is better, but...
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The main objection is electoral: to the extent Sanders has appeal in the general election it is for his independent and anti-establishment views. It is hard to envision that enthusiasm transferring to HRC....
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I think my point was a bit more obscure than I realized. It was that the Clinton (and Sanders) health care plans are not evidence of candidate qualifications as neither of them was the actual author. I will note that...
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Sebator Clinton is certainly qualified but neither she nor Senator sanders has put together a healthcare plan. In her case, she disastrously mismanaged healthcare reform. It is not a high point....
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She did a fairly good job as Senator from NY and a reasonably good job as Secretary of State. It is true that she royally screwed up health care reform and totally mismanaged her 2008 campaign both of which are...
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Much of what you say is true but: (1) Parties have in the past decade or two changed to being very tightly whipped (at least by historical American standards). This is particularly true of the Republican Party and is why,...
Commented on The paranoid style in 2016
I think you are seriously underestimating Trump by comparing him to LePage or even Rauner. For all of the outsider image he is projecting Trump is a dealmaker and an insider; he is not going to just rant ineffectively at...
Commented on A different cluetrain
This runs off the rails a bit after 13, but the essential points seem to be: (a) jobs will get scarce(r); (b) our societies will have the potential to be increasingly repressive; (c) small, poor countries must conform to the...

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ilya187 commented on The paranoid style in 2016
the only Republican candidate who's still polling high enough to challenge The Donald is Senator Ted Cruz, who the GOP elders view as even crazier than Trump. I'm not sure they're wrong. I would say they are entirely right. I am pretty sure most of Trump's crazy is an act; he consciously models his public persona on Alec Baldwin's portrayal of the "Type A to 11" salesman in Glengarry Glen Ross. Whereas Cruz really believes all this Revelation horseshit....
Greg. Tingey commented on The paranoid style in 2016
What you really mean is: I am pretty sure most of Trump's crazy is an act ... I HOPE. Um....
Gerald Fnord commented on The paranoid style in 2016
I heard an interview with a few bikers deeply into Trump, and (though it might trigger the Godwin Alarms) I'm afraid I thought of the S.A.: deeply disaffected men who've found someone they're sure won't 'screw them like all the others' and who enjoy a bit of violence if they have the numbers. "The Iron Dream"'s Knights of Bushido, anyone?...
Heteromeles commented on The paranoid style in 2016
The sad part is that they're both acting crazy: Remember that Cruz went to Harvard Law School and clerked at the Supreme Court. The even sadder part is that, if either of them gets elected, their base will hold their feet to the fire to try to get them to enact Teh Crazy. Look at what happened to Speaker Boehner. I suspect that the huge mistake they're both making is in thinking that they can use this force without ending up getting used by it. It's worth remembering two things. One is that Imperial Japan went down this route, starting...
Gerald Fnord commented on The paranoid style in 2016
I know a not particularly radical leftist who nonetheless has unsisted that liberals should arm ourselves, both to put a countervailing fear in play and, more fundamentally, to gain respect from other Americans. I counter that employing the method of the opponent were both a form of loss in itself and liable to be done much less well than by them...and point to the deadly force used on armed leftists in our country to an extent unknown by the Klan, the Minutemen, and (see below) the Posse Comitatus and the current rebels. Yes, there have been well-publicised shoot-outs and other...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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