thread: 2008-11-07 : Hope & Courage
On 2008-11-08, Ben Lehman wrote:
And if we do pursue our dreams, passionately and wholeheartedly, it also doesn't matter in the least what Obama does and doesn't do. We may fail, we may lose, but we won't be quiet, sad, passive and inert. It'll be too bad, but at least we did.
Speaking of big lies...
Of course it matters whether we succeed or fail, and of course or government (which, of course, is something much larger than a president or a presidency) has a lot to do with whether we succeed or fail.
To give an example: A Chinese native with a rurally-located household registration, if he has a dream of running his own bank, cannot do so. To do so is illegal. He can try, of course, whole-heartedly, but that process will end almost immediately in dismal failure and likely criminal prosecution.
This is because of politics, of course. To say that politics doesn't matter is insulting.
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—Ben
