^Yeah. I'm hoping his recent ... friendship? (for lack of a better word) ... with Nenshi has rubbed off in a positive manner.
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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
I feel like a massive softie but I like to believe that intelligent people do have the capacity to change.
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Not only that, we repeatedly harp on people who blatantly ignore when guys like Trump say all the terrible, idiotic nonsense they're going to do out loud and claim that somehow "No, they won't
*really* do that" only to discover in short order that yes, when people tell you who they are, you should believe them. I think it works the other way around too; you have to at least consider it possible that if someone claims to have changed their mind that they mean it.
Farkas was who he was his first go-around in council and in the mayoral race, and he wasn't shy about it. To the extent that a person can genuinely experience personal growth (and to the extent anyone can believe someone vying for political office claiming to have done so), we have to at least
consider the possibility that he's the better person and the improved candidate that he appears to be thanks to some reflection and life experience. We'd be doing ourselves a bit of a disservice to not to. Plus, he wasn't
entirely awful... just... well, he was a net-negative.
That's not to say we need blindly believe everything or give him a pass on stupid sh-t, but I'm interested to see how his positions and approaches have evolved since.