{"id":155,"date":"2006-10-19T14:55:59","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T14:34:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-10-19T14:55:59","modified_gmt":"2006-10-19T14:55:59","slug":"some_myths_and_realities_of_governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/2006\/10\/19\/some_myths_and_realities_of_governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Myths and Realities of Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"

I tend to not post political things, but I’ve been seeing something on those internets that has been pissing me right off for a long time. And since I just posted about governance within Gentoo, that put me in a political mood, so here I go. The Republican party has its issues. The Democratic party has its issues. By and large, I don’t see much separation between the two. Justin Raimondo<\/a> said it best: they are both just two wings of the war party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On some message boards and blog comments I see some Democrat supporters lament that had Al Gore won in 2000, a lot of the problems we currently face would not be problems for us to face. I don’t know how to even begin to gauge the veracity of such a speculation, but I will say this: do any of those lamenters even remember who Al Gore’s running mate<\/a> was? There’s a certain irony<\/a> there, don’t you think? <\/p>\n

It’s that same mentality that led to the asinine “Anyone But Bush” campaign in 2004. How do you even imagine winning with such a campaign? “ABB” led Democrats to get exactly who they deserved: anyone, but Bush. Anyone even remember the guy’s name? All he had going for him was that he wasn’t Bush, for crying out loud.<\/p>\n

There is a little bit of analogy to Gentoo here — there are people with noble goals for the project, but with little vision\/direction on carrying them out. Being on the Gentoo lists is probably what it feels like to be in congress: a lot of noise over absolutely nothing.<\/p>\n

By the way, my tone here is one of observation, not one of frustration.<\/p>\n

Edit: linked to the irony<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I tend to not post political things, but I’ve been seeing something on those internets that has been pissing me right off for a long time. And since I just posted about governance within Gentoo, that put me in a political mood, so here I go. The Republican party has its issues. The Democratic party … Continue reading Some Myths and Realities of Governance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/seemant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}