Nate Silver: belief

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…Trump is one of them. Yes. I’ll probably give the standard centrist left-of-center answer, which is, psychedelics are probably for some people pretty good, probably pretty dangerous for other people. Otherwise, I don’t know. I think some people are able to simulate different states of consciousness in different ways naturally. If drugs are one way to get to role-play a different person a little bit, then I think that probably is helpful for a fair number of people. Is the US presidency now in an age of what you might call parity in NBA terms? A series of one-term presidents, one after the other, just like the NBA champions keep on turning over and there’s no dynasty. We had this long era of dynasty — Bush, Clinton, my goodness, whatever else. Now it’s over and there aren’t going to be repeats. Or what’s that going to look like?…

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