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In reply to the discussion: Tweet clapping back at those who complain that Biden isn't "exciting": [View all]betsuni
(25,582 posts)"The important thing about running for president was to make sure that people were willing to cast you as president in their minds. ... The presidency had conformed itself to the Great Premises of Idiot America. Anything could be true, so long as you said it loudly enough, appeared to believe it, and enough people believed it fervently enough. Expertise, always, was beside the point, and the consequence had been both hilarious and dire: a disordered nation that applied the rules of successful fiction to the reality around it, and that no longer could distinguish very well the truth of something from its popularity."
And then when there are intelligent, competent and humane leaders they get nitpicked to death for being too much this and not enough that.