The following quote is a great observation about happiness. It also could be about polarization. "It is easy to tell how happy someone is to see another person enter a conversation. There is happy, and there is polite, and they look very different. Polite has a mechanical quality to it, like carrying out all the right movements to replace batteries in a remote. Happy has a boundless quality: unpredictable, even when it is at a low level. There is an openness, allowing another person to surprise and delight them. The easiest way to say this: there is no script for happy. It tumbles out of the body. Polite comes from the mind—it is restrained and calculated—measured lines and pauses. There are reinforcing loops in a polite person and a happy person. A person closed to the possibility of delight finds less of it. A person open to it finds more."
I took a look at the Chris Arnade web site, the walking tourist.
He missed out on Vientiane, a subtropical city without air conditioning. Everything happens in the cool part of the day from 4AM to 10AM. He noticed not much going on at night except for the 2 blocks fronting the Meking downtown. The tourist section. Everywhere else people are going to sleep.
Democrats need a candidate who can articulate the dangers of a growing federal budget deficit combined with higher interest rates. Neither Biden nor Trump 1.0 focused on the federal budget deficit. It is clear most Republican give lip service to the budget deficit then vote for big tax cuts.
In 2009 the budget deficit reached a high of around 9.8% of GDP following the great recession of 2008. By fiscal year 2016 the deficit had fallen to 3.2%. The reduction was due to economic recovery, spending cuts and tax increases.
The comments over at the Elwood stack indicate that he isn't getting through to his target audience. Bottom line is that it is easier to start a war than to end one. It takes exhaustion and extraordinary leadership. Democrats would be better off developing a positive vision rather than obsessing about more effective or alternatively, less divisive ways of opposing Trump.
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The following quote is a great observation about happiness. It also could be about polarization. "It is easy to tell how happy someone is to see another person enter a conversation. There is happy, and there is polite, and they look very different. Polite has a mechanical quality to it, like carrying out all the right movements to replace batteries in a remote. Happy has a boundless quality: unpredictable, even when it is at a low level. There is an openness, allowing another person to surprise and delight them. The easiest way to say this: there is no script for happy. It tumbles out of the body. Polite comes from the mind—it is restrained and calculated—measured lines and pauses. There are reinforcing loops in a polite person and a happy person. A person closed to the possibility of delight finds less of it. A person open to it finds more."
I took a look at the Chris Arnade web site, the walking tourist.
He missed out on Vientiane, a subtropical city without air conditioning. Everything happens in the cool part of the day from 4AM to 10AM. He noticed not much going on at night except for the 2 blocks fronting the Meking downtown. The tourist section. Everywhere else people are going to sleep.
Democrats need a candidate who can articulate the dangers of a growing federal budget deficit combined with higher interest rates. Neither Biden nor Trump 1.0 focused on the federal budget deficit. It is clear most Republican give lip service to the budget deficit then vote for big tax cuts.
In 2009 the budget deficit reached a high of around 9.8% of GDP following the great recession of 2008. By fiscal year 2016 the deficit had fallen to 3.2%. The reduction was due to economic recovery, spending cuts and tax increases.
The comments over at the Elwood stack indicate that he isn't getting through to his target audience. Bottom line is that it is easier to start a war than to end one. It takes exhaustion and extraordinary leadership. Democrats would be better off developing a positive vision rather than obsessing about more effective or alternatively, less divisive ways of opposing Trump.