https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/michael-bloomberg-tax-the-poor-for-their-own-good/
BY LARRY ELDER DECEMBER 5, 2019

All of this makes Bloomberg the very definition of the “moral busybody” scorned by respected writer C.S. Lewis, who said: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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As to Bloomberg’s argument that the poor need to be coerced into making better, more healthful decisions, Thomas Jefferson wrote: “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”

Freedom, by definition, means people can and will make choices others will not like. But to encourage people to make better decisions, one does not rob them of freedom of choice. One uses persuasion, not compulsion.

Schroedinger’s Candidate?

IIRC, he waffled between the Democrats and Republicans for years before deciding to crash the GOP party. Arguably, if the Dems had just let sleeping Very Stable Geniuses Lie (as in “recumbent”), they would not have generated any of the investigations they are now facing (Streisand Effect on steroids).

How about Trump on both tickets?

I would love to have a Constitutional amendment limiting all campaigns to the six months prior to the election.
This current system of launching the next campaign as soon as (or before?) the ballots are counted for the last one is crazy.

Just in re Hillary the non-flake. Re Bloomberg, sure, might not pan out. But not for any shortage of leadership; that’s his big plus. Saw his ads already hitting TV over the weekend. A doer.

I know you meant the current D candidates were flakes in the old-style hippie sense of “loosely moored to reality,” but the bolded sentence makes Bloomberg look just as flakey as the rest — as it also did Hillary when she changed many of her former positions for 2008 and 2016 — something that both the cognoscenti and the regular voters may not be able to get past (even assuming the MSM don’t just bury him so the latter get no opportunity to inspect his sterling qualitities; at last look, the media were stumping for Warren, but I may be behind the news a bit).

I think Bloomberg’s time in the Democratic Party is way past going back to, and Biden had the eminence gris slot sewn up anyway (if he still does).
But, you could be right.
Strange things happen in Presidential primaries.

She is a lot of things, and I agree with your other characterization of her, but I don’t think a tough killer like her could be considered in the same category with E Warren, B Sanders, or even Joey B. We are darned lucky she didn’t listen more to her husband’s advice, because she still came so close — so close. That Foundation was a powerhouse while it ran.

Point taken, and you may well be correct.

However, I doubt it. I suspect the leftist base has moved to far away from reality to be interested in such things as qualifications and competence. Rank-and-file democrats may well be- but I also suspect those folks are Trump-curious and won’t be fond of the pandering Bloomberg is about to uncork in an attempt to win over the activist crazies.

Of course, I could be completely wrong. Time will tell.