No one should be idolizing politicians. They work for their constituents.
It’s one thing to buy a shirt or a cap, it’s another to make it part of your identity.
On the one hand, strippers want you to give them your money because that’s why they’re there.
On the other, it’s weird to pretend strippers aren’t real people with feelings who want to like and be liked in turn, just as much as anyone else.
The cynical “Don’t idolize your politicians” line doesn’t teach people to read the tea leaves and pick better leadership. It just teaches them to throw up your hands and assume everyone is the same.
At some level, you need to recognize strippers and politicians alike as complex humans with both material desires and higher ideals.
Recognizing these desires and ideals helps you know who is worth your time and investment.
The cynical “Don’t idolize your politicians” line doesn’t teach people to read the tea leaves and pick better leadership. It just teaches them to throw up your hands and assume everyone is the same.
Saying all politicians are the same just rewards the worst politicians because it means they face no electoral penalty for their failings, and the better ones gain no electoral advantage from not stooping to those lows.
incredible case of the comments proving the OP right, very well done everyone
both sides
lmao, there are only two sides. Of course. Just Democrats and Republicans. Nobody else. Bernie Sanders doesn’t even exist.
Maybe you should save this for the day after the election friend. People being delusional about how good Kamala will be is actually really good for us strategically at the moment.
Any cause benefited by stupidity is not a good cause. And that does apply to both sides.
For every cause, there exists some possible circumstance such that one or more individuals having a miscalculation would benefit that cause.
Proof: Take desired result R. Assume there exists some person P who is opposed to R. Let there be some action that P can take such that R becomes impossible. If there are no downsides to this action, then R will only occur if P makes a miscalculation. ⬜
Thus, if your maxim holds, then there is no such thing as a good cause.
A discriminant that labels all causes as “bad” is not useful.
Therefore, your maxim does not serve as a useful discriminant.
QED
