Have you counted how many Mormons there are? They have kids. Liberals have abortions. Makes a difference at vote time. Best estimates had a Mormon president at about 2024, just on demographics. Mitt’s ahead of schedule, is all. Allan Bloom has an ” I greet my Mormon overlords” speech to match the Kent Brockman one on Simpsons.
Second off, people have Mormon neighbors. And Mormons make nice neighbors. And preschool teachers, and hair-cutters and small business owners. They have more social visibility than gays, who also try the neighbors you like approach. So, don’t just count Mormons- count their acquaintances and friends.
Crazy guys threatening to bring guns to a knife fight? Crazy bitchy women at Target? Crazy folks who get Johnny Depp into White-face? I’m not seeing that as the neighbor you vote for.
I don’t think he’s running as a religious Mormon candidate. I think he’s running as a conservative Boy Scout, valedictorian, top of his class, keeps his books in order kind of guy- the kind of guy we really usually do elect as president. The current guy is about like all of us compassionately electing the Down’s Syndrome kid as prom king. Great once, but don’t hand over any power.
We just don’t invite Mitt to the kegger, after graduation. Which is fine- the man needs to be staying up late, fixing America’s public finances.
That’s the part that gets me- we don’t need the smartest guys in the world in the room in Washington. We need enough of them to power Washington, and they need to know enough to get out of the way. Everybody else has competencies that they cannot fathom. Hair-cutters!!! were considered so dumb and helpless prior to Reagan that they had required prices for haircuts. That’s one that got de-regulated. And that’s how we got — cost cutters, sports clips, great hair, bO, sally kershman, tigi—-buckets of innovation in hair services. the salon owners can add, they can do hair, but they can’t talk fine washington policy. that’s good! that’s basic economics- do your own thing best!
