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The world is a complicated, spooky, entangled place. It is tempting to not think about it and instead just tell the crowd what it wants to hear, and then simply bluster your way through post-hoc rationalizations of whatever happens. It takes boldness to believe thinking is good.
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She (and I) may be wrong. The world may have gotten too complex to think about. Perhaps all we can do is make up stories after and pretend we're in charge than to actually figure out how to be in charge. But I'd rather try thinking than fail than not attempt to think at all.
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I should try writing an endorsement post. I'm not shy about that sort of thing, and there's a chance it might help. The main thing is, I never know what to say about politicians. I don't grok the mechanics of elections well and don't want to. More broad arc of history stuff.
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Especially given a stacked supreme court, the next president needs to be primarily a thinker to outmaneuver the courts as needed.
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Also, last time, when she clearly stepped aside to let Hillary have her royal shot at it to preserve party unity, the contrast between them was striking. I found myself wishing Hillary would step aside for her. It was like the A-team ceding to the B-team.
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I feel pretty similarly about Yang in that I do not think his policy recommendations are what we need, but I liked the questions he wrestled with in his book and found his interviews worthwhile even when people were shooting holes in his ideas.
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