Normally, I wouldn’t be at all concerned about a professional tabloid weirdo like Kanye West running for president. Today, however, I’m actually quite concerned, and not because I think Kanye is likely to win or even fumble his way onto enough ballots to make a dent. He won’t. For now.
The problem with Kanye or other political hobbyists running for president is that it further erodes the already threadbare integrity of our presidential politics, making it increasingly acceptable for other famous-for-being-famous nincompoops to run, and perhaps win. The last four years have illustrated how profoundly dangerous that can be.
These days, the ground is especially fertile for dilettantes and tourists to run for national office. Even on the Democratic side, sparingly. There are myriad reasons for it, but chief among them is that we appear to be experiencing an American nervous breakdown — a societal form of psychological imbalance that’s abundantly evident and worsening by the day.
It became blindingly noticeable in 2016, but during the course of this year in […]
So steeped in partisan blind loathing that you project your own human frailties onto those you despise. We hate in others what we see in ourselves.
Sorry, John. You live in a world filled with emotions and free of facts. In contrast for me this is not about hate, it is about facts. If you see something that is factually inaccurate please let me know, otherwise deal with it.
— Stephan