Rahm Emanuel wants to require acceptance letters for high school graduation

[Antonio the Sixth]

People like him need to be purged from the party.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I love the fact that conservatives, liberals, and socialists can all find common ground in agreeing that Rahm Emanuel is f**king trash.

[Antonio the Sixth]

And this was Obama's cheif of staff...

If it was Hillary's chief of staff you can bet people would use this to further castigate her but Obama largely gets a pass because he's 'likable' or something like that.

It's become startlingly clear in retrospect that Obama ran the American center-left into the ground.

That might be true in an objective sense, but I can't really think of anything that another realistic 2008 Democratic candidate would have done differently (there is of course a lot that a hypothetical Democratic President could have done differently, but my point is about the group of people who actually had a say in the direction of the Democratic party at the time) that would have led to a different outcome. Pinning it on Obama specifically (as opposed to Obama as the symptom of a broader problem) would be a mistake IMO.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Do politicians like Rahm Emanuel actually want most people to be kept institutionalized from cradle to grave?

Possibly he just read the first chapter of Seeing Like A State and got entirely the wrong idea...

In fairness, I read the first chapter of Seeing Like A State and and thought that what Scott was describing wasn't nearly as terrible as he made it out to be, and that the good probably outweighed the bad all things considered.

(Also, I just realized that the name of the professor I'm TAing for right now is the reverse of the author's. LOL)