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Re: POTUS thread
You are getting lost in the minutiae and the abstractions. Monty may be the smartest man I have never met but something tells me he would be a poor executive. Policy wonks tend to make poor elected leaders.
You don't have to agree with these people. You do have to understand their pain. You have to be able to look them in the eyes and understand why they feel the way that they do in a way that numbers and political maxims can't.
is it really that hard to see?
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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