If you donโt want your followers to give up in disgust, your inspiration needs to be in the service of goals that are at least attainable.
Kevin DrumI've long believed that having multiple official languages makes it very hard to sustain a united polity.
Kevin DrumNote to conservatives: sometimes you just have to give up. Do you really care that much about killing lots of bad guys as opposed to letting them rot in prison for the rest of their lives? It might be time to let go and save your energy for other battles. This one is getting absurd.
Kevin DrumIf Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: โIf you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.โ Thatโs certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.
Kevin DrumThe fallout from the Supreme Court halfway killing Obamacare would likely be more serious than conservatives believe...Even their own base, which has been told relentlessly that Obamacare represents the end of the America they love, might start to demand a fix once it becomes clear just what theyโre missing - and what all those blue states with their own exchanges are getting.
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