Wow you are unpleasant

Being over-confident in either your pessimism or your optimism is a recipe for inaction or wrong action, what’s important is to try to look at the world realistically.

Eh, I’d say that a problem for someone like Trump or the GOP who spend all their time trying to tear America down is a win for America.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

I don’t think I can agree with you there. Solar power is an incredibly valuable technology, in many ways more so than nuclear. If we were replacing this nuclear energy with increased solar I’d have no complaint. The problem is solar is already growing as fast as it can with or without shutting down any nuclear plants, so what it’s actually replaced with as discussed in this article is fossil fuels. Hopefully the solar curve can catch up eventually and shut down those fossil fuels as well, but it’s ridiculous to ditch nuclear before then.

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Hard to imagine how anyone who’s concerned about climate change could see shutting down a carbon-free energy source as a “green win”.

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I like democracy because it tends to produce more of the results that I like than authoritarianism. A dictatorship that sustainably produces better results than democracy would by definition be better, but from what I can tell that’s not possible.

Your question avoids the biggest issue with that sort of dictatorship - the fact that it replaces peaceful electoral competition for power with force, that can as easily result in chaos and civil war as a stable dictatorship.

With that off the table, the big issue is that kind of benevolent dictatorship has a tendency to start off strong and then decay as the original ruling clique who actually had some ideals die off and are replaced by their subordinates who got into working in an autocratic government for the power. Too bad Bernie is so old, we wouldn’t get that many years of him on top. Not worth it in the long run even if you do get some policy benefits in the short run. Unless you think the odds of Trump becoming a dictator instead are high enough that it’s better to take a chance on a better dictator, which is the kind of calculation that results in the civil wars and such I mentioned above.

I think there’s a lot of vague support for keeping porn away from children that evaporates in the context of the actual issue at hand where porn sites are being mandated to collect and store the IDs of every visitor.