Rethink.

If things are com­fort­able, and issues domes­tic and for­eign entrusted to indi­vid­u­als com­pe­tent enough, then why should any­one be talk­ing about pol­i­tics? Why should we in Amer­ica be so pas­sion­ate about this Pres­i­den­tial elec­tion? Is there really an enor­mous amount on the line, or are we mak­ing stuff up because we’re bored? It could be dan­ger­ous …

These are just notes. As said before, try­ing to describe polit­i­cal posi­tions as good/bad purely abstractly is the refuge of the scoundrel — the major rea­son why peo­ple do such things is to argue for inhu­mane things. The foun­da­tions of any given regime are a grap­pling with neces­sity for the sake of some­thing higher, but …