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[–] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

For problems I'm ignorant in I'd have experts from the left and the right advise me on them and try to find a middle ground that's best for America.

Didn't Obama try to do something like that in his first term? I think he called it his "Cabinet of Rivals" or some shit. It sucked.

Wouldn't be buyable

Aren't there interviews with this guy where he practically presents himself as a machine that shuts down when it isn't doing something profitable? Like aren't there quotes from him where he talks about struggling with motivation and purpose if it isn't tied to making money? He seems almost exclusively driven by money, so I'm not sure I buy that he's not buyable.

[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Didn't Obama try to do something like that in his first term? I think he called it his "Cabinet of Rivals" or some shit. It sucked.

It was a "team of rivals" and he snagged the idea from Lincoln lmao. I'm not smart enough to know for sure, but it probably sucked way back then, too

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Considering how Reconstruction went with it starting shortly after his death, I'm inclined to agree.

[–] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

Yes it's pure liberalism. The "team of rivals" only worked because Lincoln held them together and they (the rivals) had a mutual enemy in the confederacy. It's basically that centrist meme about planes with both wings on one side of the fuselage "YoU nEeD bOTh WiNgS tO fLy!" horseshit. Meme level analysis and solution. Shallow as some pithy Reagan retort.