When Mehdi Hasan sat down with Jon Stewart last month, the roles were reversed. This time, the Emmy-winning host of The Daily Show was the one asking the questions — about corporate media, Gaza, Do…
“it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” -Douglas Adams.
He doesn’t want the job. He’d be the best President since Teddy Roosevelt.
That’s a logical fallacy. Just because people who don’t desire power tend to wield power more ethically than people who do; has no bearing on either individual capacity to lead, nor the political context.
Jon is a great guy, but you’ll be setting him up to fail electing him to counter trump becuase trump is just the tip of the GOP spear. Unless you guys are willing to do the work of mass primarying the DNC than nothing will change.
“it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” -Douglas Adams.
He doesn’t want the job. He’d be the best President since Teddy Roosevelt.
That’s a logical fallacy. Just because people who don’t desire power tend to wield power more ethically than people who do; has no bearing on either individual capacity to lead, nor the political context.
Jon is a great guy, but you’ll be setting him up to fail electing him to counter trump becuase trump is just the tip of the GOP spear. Unless you guys are willing to do the work of mass primarying the DNC than nothing will change.