{"id":6184,"date":"2016-09-27T06:22:49","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T06:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/hillary-won-last-nights-debate\/"},"modified":"2016-09-27T06:22:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T06:22:49","slug":"hillary-won-last-nights-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/hillary-won-last-nights-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary ‘Won’ Last Night’s Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the  whole day yesterday at an auto dealership buying my wife a new car.  But last night I didn't dream about the car, but about Hillary who appeared  young and stunning and topless<\/em>, but with very small breasts.  What does this dream mean?<\/span><\/p>\n

My subconscious was telling me that Hillary came across in the first debate much better than Trump (young and stunning) and that therefore she 'won' the debate despite her indefensible position (toplessness) and weak arguments (small breasts).  <\/span><\/p>\n

And 'win' she did.  She threw the Orange Man onto the defensive and made him look bad.  Despite his allegations of her lack of stamina, she stood there strong as a bull.  She threw a lot of bull too, but it doesn't matter in these so-called debates.  It's all about appearances.  That's what the world runs on.  That's what impresses people.  Remember Ronald Reagan's contentless 'zingers'? "There you go again!"  "Where's the beef?" (An allusion to a Wendy's restaurant commercial of the time.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Some of us recall Nixon-Kennedy, 1960.  You could see Nixon sweat.  Sweat and scowl.  An introvert in an extrovert's profession, he was no match for the charming and charismatic and lovable Jack Kennedy.  He lost on appearances. But Nixon was the better man with the better arguments despite playing Captain Ahab to Kennedy's Prince Charming. <\/span><\/p>\n

Trump missed opportunities to nail Hillary.  She spouted standard liberal nonsense about 'gun violence' as if guns are violent, but nary a peep escaped her lying lips about the thug culture in black ghettos which is the real root of the problem.  Similarly on the 'stop and frisk' matter.  But Trump was stymied by his need to appeal to black voters.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can't say to black people that, as a group, they, and in particular young black males, are more criminally inclined than whites, and that this is what justifies 'stop and 'frisk' profiling, for they will take it as racist insult, not as the plain truth, which is what it is.<\/span><\/p>\n

I predict a win by Hillary in the general, by a small margin.  I hope I am wrong.  <\/span><\/p>\n

A Hillary win will concern me as a citizen.  But as a philosopher it will be of no concern.  For the owl of Minerva spreads its wings at dusk.<\/span><\/p>\n

The theme unpacked: The Owl of Minerva Spreads its Wings at Dusk<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum 1<\/em>. 'Gun epidemic' is another obfuscatory phrase Hillary used last night.  A characteristic conflation of the moral and the epidemiological that could arise only in the febrile brain of a liberal.  The problem in the black ghettos is not too many guns, but too few fathers.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum 2<\/em>.  I said above that a Hillary win would concern me as a citizen but not as a philosopher.  But this was an uncharacteristic undialectical lapse on my part.  For one cannot flourish as a philosopher  in prison or in a totalitarian regime.  The embodied philosopher must concern himself to some extent with politics as with the material conditions of his philosophizing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Corrigendum 1<\/em>.  Dennis M. writes, <\/span><\/p>\n

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A correction: \u201cWhere\u2019s the beef?\u201d was from a Reagan debate, but it was a line Mondale used against him. That one didn\u2019t do much, but Reagan\u2019s quip about not using Mondale\u2019s youth and inexperience against him did a lot to kill the worries people had after his somewhat listless performance in their first debate.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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