Friends, Colleagues, and中国伊朗亚洲杯比赛直播Listeners,

In the spirit of Plato, I am pleased to announce that I am throwing my hat in the ring for 2020! I can no longer sit back and watch as almost nothing gets accomplished in American politics. The default state of our system is inaction or reaction, because by design it rewards rather than punishes stasis and reaction. Ours is one of the few democratic—well, pseudo democratic—systems in the world in which it is false that failure is an orphan and victory has a thousand fathers. In American politics, stasis and defeat can have a thousand very happy fathers.

Consequently, our political problems mostly fester and grow, rather than get solved. Far too often, they are not even addressed until a widely unbearable tipping point is reached.

There are exceptions, but they help prove the rule. Reagan, for all his determination to undo the welfare state, could not pull it off. In the attempt to starve it, though, he did manage to give us mounting deficits as far as the eye could see, which severely constrained what could be done.

It took Bill Clinton and unified government to begin to undo the damage that Reagan had done but he only accomplished this many years later. Clinton desperately wanted to restore confidence in the possibility of government activism and thought that starting with healthcare and promising to reform rather than eliminate the welfare state would be easy and would help achieve the return of activist government and a more sane tax policy. However, this cost him and the Democrats the Congress, eventually led to his impeachment, and actually brought about the dismantling of much of the welfare state at the hands of him and the Republicans in Congress.

Politics in this country is not even close to wish-fulfillment. At its best, it's a really hard slog through a thicket of opponents that cannot be wished or charmed or argued or bludgeoned away. That’s why I say we need a new republic, a new constitution, and a new politics.

正如柏拉图所设想的理想共和国，我所设想的新共和国建立在旧共和国的灰烬之上。是时候让哲学家国王们在这个新的共和国中占据他们应有的位置了。这就是我竞选2020年总统的原因。

作为我彻底改变美国政治的努力的一部分，我承诺不拿任何大公司或特殊利益集团的钱，所以我真的需要你们的帮助来改变我的生活。Please consider supporting me by sharing my big announcement far and wide anddonating to my campaign here.

With deepest gratitude,

Your Future President,

Kenneth Taylor

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