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Univision Democratic Debate | The Young Turks Summary (Original Post) BigBearJohn Mar 2016 OP
"Think small!" Waiting For Everyman Mar 2016 #1
Well put. Duppers Mar 2016 #2
American culture is a 'first half of life' culture. Volaris Mar 2016 #3
trillion dollars greymouse Mar 2016 #4
K & R LWolf Mar 2016 #5
Without The Questions In Advance corbettkroehler Mar 2016 #6
and thanks to you for this outstanding picture. Sending it to all my friends BigBearJohn Mar 2016 #7

Waiting For Everyman

(9,385 posts)
1. "Think small!"
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 05:55 AM
Mar 2016

HRC summed up in two words.

Nah, I'll stick with the revolution guy. I'd rather think SUPER BIG. That's how we got to the moon. That's how we did everything worth doing.

I wonder if she goes into schools and says, "now, kids, be sure to dream small".

Volaris

(10,272 posts)
3. American culture is a 'first half of life' culture.
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 08:32 AM
Mar 2016

There are some bad things that come with that.
There are a lot of good things.
One of them seems to be that if we don't have a kind of national idea of frontier or challenge to conquer, we get very bored, very quickly and then we do self-destructive things.

When we DO have that frontier, nobody can touch us. No culture on earth seems to perform better under pressure of 'this new Thing/Place/Technology/Whatever will kill us if we screw up playing with it, so we had better get our shit together and put some money into some smart peoples' hands and make sure we don't die out here' than Americans.

It's why I'm not worried about China sending someone to bring us our flag back from the moon. It's not in them, it's not who they are culturally (it's still to dangerous, even 50 years later).

When we DONT think big like you suggest, we get bored and do dumb things like invade Iraq. We should have spent that trillion dollars on a Mars Mission. If for no other reason, the Return on Investment would have been better.

greymouse

(872 posts)
4. trillion dollars
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 09:01 AM
Mar 2016

or on repairing our crumbling infrastructure, or food and healthcare and shelter and education. On any of hundreds of things that are worthwhile.

corbettkroehler

(1,898 posts)
6. Without The Questions In Advance
Thu Mar 10, 2016, 10:22 PM
Mar 2016

Thanks for the video! I would have missed it otherwise.

The Univisión debate proved that, in a fair fight (when one side doesn't have some or all of the questions in advance), Sanders acquits himself just fine.

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