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>Are you under the impression that Yes Minister was a documentary?

Are you under the impression that it wasn't?

Trump years showed clearly how the career people could sabotage easily administration's agenda.



Yeah sure bro, sabotaged; totally not the case that Trump and his stooges were incompetent, just as many predicted and warned.

Imagine if Trump had just let normal Republicans run everything the way they would have done had we had a President Kasich or something; things probably would have gone fairly well and we'd most likely be in his second term right now.

Man, if I had a son and he turned out to be right-winger, I don't know what I'd dislike about the situation more: that he'd be bigoted or that he'd be a little bitch who participated in a culture of never assuming responsibility for one's own short-comings and instead blamed his failings, and those of anyone he was misguided enough to admire, on shadowy others (as well as being so unselfconsciously asinine so as to publicly assert that "Yes Minister" somehow possesses real explanatory and descriptive power).

Granted, if he were a committed left-winger that would come with its own set of problems, but at least most of his misjudgments would involve a kind of misdirection or misguidance of moral impulse and an overabundance of empathy and altruism, as opposed to the almost naked abandonment of any semblance thereof.




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