I'm afraid that, short of a violent coup, not much can be done about our options at this point.  Given the choice between a candidate who thinks I'm a yahoo and a candidate who is an actually yahoo, I chose the former.  Just to mix things up after 8 years of President Ignorant Yahoo.  

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

Reminds me of one of the events that started my own hard left turn. We'd set up a student's meeting and invited two political parties to send representatives. Well, the right-winger was a no-show, so they sent us some ignorant twit from their youth organisation, who hadn't even read up on the proposal he was supposed to be defending (and said as much - in so many words - at the start of the show).

Long story short, this dumbass is asked a pointed question or two about why the Fogh II regime wants to cut the stipends for students virtually in half and (almost) replace the cutbacks with "incentives programs" (which is, of course, newspeak for favouring the already privileged). This supercilious little bizniz school student replies something along the lines of "we're just moving a few commas, is it really something to get so worked up about?" and goes back to talking about something that wasn't on the agenda.

Colour me pissed off.

- Jake

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