So I watched the Democratic National Convention, which was often extremely moving, but what really struck me was some of the early speeches by the second-string politicians, which ranged from pretty good to kind of awkward. But over and over again you heard about some of the changes we can hope for from a Democratic administration. A lot of the speeches kind of sounded like this:
“We’re gonna stop torturing people, especially if they’re innocent. And we’re going to stop spying on everyone all the time. And when we invade another country, we’re going to make sure it’s the right country, and we’re also going to try diplomacy first. And when a natural disaster destroys one of our cities, when going to respond that very same day.”
I mean, those are all definitely changes I can believe in, but egad the bar has been set low. As long as we’re setting the bar this low, while we’re at it why don’t we send the bar on a suicide mission to restart the earth’s core?
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