• leweb
    +5

    I actually intended to focus on the polarization, which is the first problem we need to solve if there's ever going to be a United S of A again. I'm well aware that the entire Washington establishment is rotten beyond repair, and that they have resources beyond belief to spread the rot.

    It can always be worse, and if people don't change their attitude toward each other it will. I can tell you how it went in Venezuela. The first popular uprising against the establishment was lead by another "dotard" called Rafael Caldera. Only after him we got Hugo Chavez. It's definitely possible that a populist smarter than Trump follows suit. It doesn't take much to be smarter than Trump.

    I know I'm being repetitive, but unless we start listening to our political opponents in a respectful way, and trying to find a consensus, shit's going to keep getting worse. And it can get much, much, much worse.

    BTW, about NYT and WP, if anyone knows a way to block them permanently I'd like to know. I'm tired of them asking me to pay them to brainwash me. It's like political televangelism.

    • Gozzin
      +4

      Mark them as SPAM. I recently somehow got added back to the Daily Kos cause of the never ending emails. I suspect someone sold my email address to um. Well not only did I unsubscribe again,marking them as spammers sends their crap to the spam filter.

    • AdelleChattre (edited 6 years ago)
      +4

      Caldera sounds like the opposite of a demagogue. From what little I've found, he sounds like a practical man that wore himself out building unpopular consensus about hard problems. Forgive a stupid question, but would you say he ultimately let the country down, the country let him down, both, neither?

      • leweb
        +4

        He pardoned Chavez. If that's not letting the country down, I don't know what is.

        • AdelleChattre (edited 6 years ago)
          +3

          I won't begrudge you any grudges. I've still got an evil eye for Ralph Nader, a sometimes third party presidential candidate who tore that mask off in the final days of the Nov. 7, 2000 election to campaign, not for his party to get votes essential for the party's standing on state ballots, but to make sure votes went to his kindred-spirit Republican George W. Bush. Nader was the third man on Bush/Cheney's ticket. So keep stoking the fires of hatred for Caldera, and warm yourself by them as I do. It's cozy. Familiar. Am curious one thing, though, does your contempt extend to his pardoning Communist guerrillas as well?