{"id":2159,"date":"2015-09-19T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2015-09-19T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-19T17:38:23","slug":"race-2016-who-vs-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/09\/19\/race-2016-who-vs-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Race 2016: Who vs Who"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m going with Sanders<\/a> vs Carson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both candidates hold the quality of novelty in terms of nation-wide.\u00a0 This is important in a nation that is steeped in the importance of novelty.<\/p>\n

Sanders: Bernie brings qualities of sincerity, passion, and what I’ll call visionary pragmatism<\/em> to the race.\u00a0 The idea of a one payer health system may seem radical, even socialist, yet he can point at many socialist health systems as costing less while yielding better results; the libertarian argument, with which I have a certain sympathy, that the context differs in that we have to support drug development while other nations simply leach off the United States, will have little impact since the libertarians, by and large, have chosen to throw their lot in with the GOP rather than the Democrats.\u00a0 The progressive wing (which differentiates from the socialist wing, who may be ambivalent about Sanders) will like him not only for his progressive policies, but also, perhaps against their own will, for his feistiness, i.e., for example, his gun policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is no knock on Hillary – exceedingly bright, hard-working by all reports, major credentials.\u00a0 She’d probably make a fine President.\u00a0 But she’s too familiar, even when her husband steps up and hits a home run of a speech, as he does from time to time.<\/p>\n

Carson: Regardless of the wishes of the GOP leadership (as we’ve seen with the Trump takeover of the race), Carson has perhaps the best shot at winning the GOP nomination.\u00a0 In this case, it’s due to the reactivity of the GOP’s membership to various charges: he’s black, he’s exceedingly well-educated and has a fantastic standing in the community as an eminent retired surgeon, and yet he’s apparently religious to a fault.\u00a0 Trump, to give him his due, has his business successes (and failures, although they are hardly mentioned), he has a charisma to him, and the willingness to trumpet lies and half-lies that appeal to the biases of the base; Fiorina may appear to be made of steel, but as the national press has pointed out, her grip on the issues is more than a little faulty, and her most important project, leading H-P, was a disaster.\u00a0 Carson has non-political credentials, which appears to be important to the GOP base, and will bring a new, yet familiar viewpoint to the office; I could easily see a replay of the important Bush II campaign moment when some voter, during an interview, declared she felt Bush had been picked by God to be President.\u00a0 (Evidently God hated us during that campaign.\u00a0 Or hated Bush.)\u00a0 Carson’s breezy confidence is deeply appealing, and his credentials validate many of the biases of the base.<\/p>\n

And, yeah, this is a knock on the GOP candidates and base.\u00a0 There’s a difference between the trumpeted “deep, talented field” of the GOP, and it’s true nature: a bunch of power-hungry politicians who are either as goofy as the GOP base and\/or leadership, or are willing to lie through their teeth for power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m going with Sanders vs Carson. Both candidates hold the quality of novelty in terms of nation-wide.\u00a0 This is important in a nation that is steeped in the importance of novelty. Sanders: Bernie brings qualities of sincerity, passion, and what I’ll call visionary pragmatism to the race.\u00a0 The idea of \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}