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Old 02-09-2015, 03:59 PM
 
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Jindal wants Louisiana to be another Mississippi.
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Old 02-09-2015, 04:51 PM
 
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Jindal wants Louisiana to be another Mississippi.
Dear God no!
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Old 02-09-2015, 07:47 PM
 
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Dear God no!
Yeah really... our current state motto is: "Thank Gawd for Mississippi...at least we're not Last!"
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Old 02-09-2015, 08:57 PM
 
Location: New Orleans, LA
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I forgot about this thread, I would've posted the link I posted as a thread in here instead.

This governor turned me from a pretty stark conservative to somebody who resents them. If the right wing wants to show examples of failed policy, be Bobby. Cut taxes to no end (except for the lower and middle class), deny federal benefits to its citizens, subsidize corporations, and cut huge chunks of money going to schools and hospitals and you get a huge deficit with major hospitals that are closing, schools that are raising tuition, and what do we have to show for it? A few TV shows on A&E and a couple more Walmarts. Gee, thanks Bobby. You may turn this state purple ... and not politically.
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Old 02-24-2015, 11:34 PM
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Location: Dallas, TX
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This article's premise is based on the old saying: We get the politicians we deserve. And referring to our current Governor: Bobby Jindal, it seems to be the case considering that he got 66% of the vote from voters who chose to ignore his first term.
Depends on what "deserve" means.

If by that you mean they deserve Jindal because the majority of people directly voted him into office, then the answer is "Yes, but". In a representative republic, the one with the most votes in the final round of voting wins the right to hold office for X Years.

On the other hand, did Bush-haters deserve Bush as POTUS in the 2000s? Or Obama-haters deserve Obama for the past 6 1/4 years? So that makes it very tricky to answer if you "deserve" in this way.


If "deserve" means "rightfully having policies, legislation, etc. implemented", then that gets a bit trickier; especially whether society as a whole benefits or who loses from the policies. To simply say "Yes, end of story" is to imply people deserve whatever hurt or harm they receive simply because they weren't wise or perceptive enough to see the shortcomings of these policies. Which brings up a closely related aspect of this

If "deserve" means "rightfully suffering from the consequences of your acts", then this seems a clear "No". This is tantamount to saying "Stupid people deserve to suffer simply because they're stupid - end of story!"* It also implies that we may rightfully disdain and scorn people who make incompetent decisions, even when the error in judgment is not proportionate to the scorn (or put another way, the scorn is disproportionate to the shortcoming).

This is why I don't like the question. Not only is it vague, it carries an unspoken but obviously present undertext saying that people who make poor decisions in utmost good faith deserve whatever scorn, mockery, or even suffering comes their way.


*Dan Fincke at patheos.com has several articles detailing not only why "stupid" people deserve scorn and derision, but why both the word itself and the attitudes they convey toward the word's target are morally indefensible. But that's for another sub-forum.
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