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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer
I tend to agree. Much better to focus on his major failures and significant personality disorders.
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To take things a step further, I always find the obsession with "major failures" in the political realm to be rather absurd. What were Peter Thiel's major failures? Which technology companies did he lose the most money on? I doubt even 1% of the those involved in the technology industry would be able to answer, or even care to know. The fact is, the only thing that matters is Paypal, Facebook, and his other successful ventures.
Only in the dishonest, disingenuous gotcha filled world of politics is the focus flipped to highlight any possible historical failure, no matter how absurd in context.
Finally, it is all too lazy to name call and use sensationalist extremist language such as "personality disorder" to describe politicians who dare to deviate in their behaviour from the expected manufactured politician image. People said it about Obama. People said it about Harper. People say it about Trudeau. People say it about Trump. Just lazy vacuous personal attacks whose gossip laden rhetoric's unimaginative character is only matched by the cyclical partisan robotic way it is repeated against "the other guy" every time there is a shuffling of the chairs in the white house.
I can understand those under the age of 30 who fall for these political games hook line and sinker, but I scratch my head at those who have the patience to play these games over and over and over every 4 or 5 years for literally decades on end.