Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“In my eyes, every election is a trainwreck. Two proudly irrational tribes rally behind two self-congratulatory demagogic mediocrities as if they were the Second Coming. Listening to any ‘serious’ candidate speak is torture. It’s like sitting in on the class presentations of C students, knowing that one of these C students will, on the basis of their half-baked words, become the most powerful person on Earth. What a disgraceful system. You can tell me ‘One of these candidates must be the lesser evil’ from dawn to dusk. But I just can’t stop thinking, ‘They all make my flesh crawl — and if you don’t feel the same way, there is something very wrong with you.’ Yet there is a simple and obvious reply to my extreme negativity: ‘Bryan, your standards are too high.’” (11/11/24)