Halllonsylt

Many years ago I listened to you talk at my school. You talked about how underestimated the "gråsosse" was. To go slow and be careful and not trust fast and easy solutions. Today we have a media climate that seems to value extreme opinions, easy solutions, bickering, and name calling. How can we move from that to a media climate that value in-depth analysis, intellectual honesty, and carefully planned solutions even if they are difficult to understand?

I've thought about this for an hour now. I don't know. The thing I personally can do is applaud politicians who doesn't use platitudes, to respect those with good arguments, from either side. But also to admit to myself that I'm not an expert economist, that I really have no idea if the national debt is high or low, and if that's good or bad. To see politics as a discussion, not as a trench war.

Hard to describe without context, but it's usually a slightly pejorative word for "boring" social democrats without radical ideas or quick solutions. If I understood him correctly, he meant that progress should be steady and careful, and that we should be cautious when people call for simple solutions to complex problems. (This is my interpretation of something he said almost 20 years ago.)

I can't answer for all europeans, but I have friends with left leaning sympathies, right leaning sympathies, libertarians, socialists, etc, and I read many different news sources. I can't remember reading or hearing even one good thing about Trump. Most people realize that Trump doesn't equal all of America, but he's really not helping the image of America. We are scared and amused at the same time by his actions.

The singular of data is not "personal anecdote".

What is the singular of data if not anecdotes? That is not to say that we should generalize from anecdotes, but surely it's one item in the set?