cwald wrote:At least Mitt has the guts to stand up to Trump. I'd vote for him on that fact alone.
Although he has shown some signs of resistance, I wouldn't put him down as a #NotMyPresident just yet. We saw that he was more than willing to placate to Trump when he thought Secretary of State was on the table. I think at the end of the day he will probably do whatever is best for him, even if that means aligning with Trump & Co.
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." -Xenophon of Athens
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
And Romney is going there on a mission: to bring “Utah’s values” to the nation’s capital, he explained in a video last Friday kicking off his campaign to replace the retiring Orrin Hatch in the U.S. Senate.
So Mitt wants high rates of depression, opiate abuse, misogyny, abused women being encouraged to put up with abuse for eternity, homophobia and teen suicide across the nation? Good luck running on that ticket.
“When we are confronted with evidence that challenges our deeply held beliefs we are more likely to reframe the evidence than we are to alter our beliefs. We simply invent new reasons, new justifications, new explanations. Sometimes we ignore the evidence altogether.” (Mathew Syed 'Black Box Thinking')
