Politics
Posted on | April 30, 2009 |
From Chicago-based journalist Robert Koehler. His full essay on torture as treason. It’s an eloquent argument (maybe the best I’ve seen yet and I’ve read everything published in the media on torture for the last two months).
Politics as we practice it these days - as the Democrats practice it, I should say - is just another form of market-based consumerism. It is trend-focused and desirous most of all of not offending. While the Republicans are masters at creating wedge issues and harnessing hatred in order to govern, the Dems lack the skill to harness the opposite force, compassion and empathy, so they govern without clarity or fervor. In the words of Michael Dukakis, they aspire to “manage.”
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