How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudoscientific Fantasyland

Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by SmirkingRevenge on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:17AM (#16130778)

I'm pretty sure I'd find plenty of reason to dislike the leaders of state no matter where I live. Most of what is great about this country isn't done in Washington - we can survive bad leaders (hopefully).

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Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by dcposch on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:31AM (#16130829)

True, and maybe it is just a case of the grass being greener.

The closest analogue to Trump/Oprah in modern western history is probably Silvio Berlusconi.

That fiasco wasn’t even a swift dramatic thing—just a grinding two decades and counting of stagnation, inept government, corruption and brain drain as your best youth go abroad.

I hope it doesn’t happen here and I want to do anything I can to help.

Past some hypothetical point, though, I think my wanderlust and sense of pride would take me elsewhere.

Innovation can happen anywhere, and fortune favors the bold.

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Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by mc32 on Friday January 12, 2018 @01:42AM (#16130869)

I thought old Silvio was thinking of making a "comeback"[1]? I mean, who knows.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/world/europe/sicily-elect...

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Re:How Oprah Winfrey Helped Create Our Irrational, Pseudosci... by refurb on Friday January 12, 2018 @04:04AM (#16131496)

Yup! Having grow up outside the US you'd be kidding yourself to think it's any different elsewhere.

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