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Reminds me of a line from the movie "Hope and Glory" that I have always remembered.
Grouchy grandfather talking about his wife and daughters, "She named them Faith, Hope and Charity after the virtues I lack." It is as if Republicans want to post a reminder of the rules they have no intention of following.
--Hiram
Seems about correct.
Republicans sold their moral credibility for three votes on the Supreme Court. They didn't even get a mess of pottabe out of the deal. So be it. But they can't turn around now and pretend that bargain ever happened.
All this reminds me of so many episodes of the Twilight Zone, where the protagonist makes a deal with the devil in the form of Sebastian Cabot and finds what he receives is never worth the cost of his soul.
--Hiram
Actually McConnell sold his moral credibility for one extra vote.
And he seems to have no problem with it.
I am a fan of the tv show, "The West Wing". I have watched the whole thing several times through, and I often watch individual episodes as issues come up or I feel the need for consolation. It was made in the early years of this century, and often provides a prediction of the future from the past. There is one episode when Sam talks about the challenges America will face in those coming years now past. The first thing he talks about is privacy.What he missed was that the notion of privacy would collapse and that 26 years in we would want less privacy. We would want to create national IDs which would be used to creat ID's which all of us would need to exercise our constitutional rights. The information in those databases would be public and all of us or at least the oligarchs among us would have access to it.
The times indeed are a'changing.
==Hiram
There is also the great Robert Redford movie "Sneakers" where the villain were individuals who developed a computer system which would compile all our information. "No ssecrets". It's fascinating how over time villains turn into heros. The James Bond franchise has been acquired by Jeff Bezos who just a few years ago would have been a classic Bond villain. Actually, in a couple of them, I rhink he was.
==Hiram
Ever watch a situation comedy where someone install a complex security system for whatever? Don't you know what will happen at some point in the next 22 minutes? That the system will fail and hilarity will ensue? I have seen that plot device a million times, I see it coming a mile away, and I still laugh when it all comes crashing down. Part of the reason why it works is that this works is because it goes to a basic truth we all understand. The more complex a system it is, the more moving parts it has, the more likely it is to fail. And there is another factor too which makes this more dangerous. For a number of good reasons, complex systems tend to fail when they are most needed and the consequences of failure are most disastrous. If you don't believe me, I suggest checking out the history of recent financial catastrophes where measure designed to make investing safer and more predictable turn out to have catastrophic effects, far worse than anything they were designed to prevent.
Is voter ID like that, involving the development of national databases which compile in one place sensitive information for three hundred million Americans all of which is to be made available on the internet? Is it possible that nothing will go wrong?
--Hiram
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