And most serious lefties of my acquaintance say he is also not very bright.
I can see that, though I have to admit, the past 5 or 10 years, I've gotten quite disenchanted with using intelligence as a yardstick for anything. I still get angry when people do stupid things, so I do give intelligence some weight, but I've gotten to the point where kindness and human decency weigh a lot more to me. Unfortunately, I think we are in a time where it is easy to railroad kind people.
15 hours ago
Thanks for all of the comments. I'm still curious what people think of Corbyn and Sultana as well as Polanski. He was recently on The rest is politics and I thought Cory Stewart was going to have a heart attack because Polanski didn't have totals of debt interest the UK gov was liable for at his fingertips. I'm not sure if it was an ambush, Polanski does come off as a bit glib to me, but given the Green's position, I think he has to push the aspirational stuff over the actual planning. I suppose this opens him up to the charge that he is unserious, but this seems like the way they always dismiss any left of center ideas.
Sultana seems like a person who relishes being a chaos agent so the combination of her and Corbyn seems doomed to failure, but I can't tell if that's because every thing I have read pushes that point. The New Statesman podcast was discussing how it was a clash between a federated system, where each group would get a vote or a more purely democratic system where each member would get a vote (if I understood it correctly) but I wasn't sure who was for what.
And most serious lefties of my acquaintance say he is also not very bright.
I can see that, though I have to admit, the past 5 or 10 years, I've gotten quite disenchanted with using intelligence as a yardstick for anything. I still get angry when people do stupid things, so I do give intelligence some weight, but I've gotten to the point where kindness and human decency weigh a lot more to me. Unfortunately, I think we are in a time where it is easy to railroad kind people.
Thanks for all of the comments. I'm still curious what people think of Corbyn and Sultana as well as Polanski. He was recently on The rest is politics and I thought Cory Stewart was going to have a heart attack because Polanski didn't have totals of debt interest the UK gov was liable for at his fingertips. I'm not sure if it was an ambush, Polanski does come off as a bit glib to me, but given the Green's position, I think he has to push the aspirational stuff over the actual planning. I suppose this opens him up to the charge that he is unserious, but this seems like the way they always dismiss any left of center ideas.
Sultana seems like a person who relishes being a chaos agent so the combination of her and Corbyn seems doomed to failure, but I can't tell if that's because every thing I have read pushes that point. The New Statesman podcast was discussing how it was a clash between a federated system, where each group would get a vote or a more purely democratic system where each member would get a vote (if I understood it correctly) but I wasn't sure who was for what.