Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The Election

Filed under: Elections — by Will Kirkland @ 10:44 am
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We’d rather talk about baseball…. The momentary high to precede the nasty business of learning to live with what has happened. 

There’s much to think, and to say and many others are saying much.  At the moment I don’t know.  Time to consider.  It’s clear that anger is a stronger emotion than hope and more dangerous.  So how do those who don’t think anger and authoritarianism are a good governing philosophy get mobilized around compelling ideas?  How is the bubble of anger punctured and the air let out before it lifts us all into the thinner air of few good ideas and lots of bad?  Bad ideas accumulate, like CO2 and if not reversed will do us in before desertification and disappearing coastlines do.

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  1. susanhughes:

    I wonder how things would look if the press had given the Green Party as much focus as it has to the Tea Party . Should the Green party start making more noise to get the attention it needs to educate “moderates ” to start voting for thier own ( and the earth’s ) interests ? Such as , the wars are what are sacking the treasury not entitlements .

  2. Will Kirkland:

    You’re absolutely right, Susan. The press is focused on shock, alarm and accidents. The Tea Party filled the bill. Would/Could the Greens? Interesting question…it has appeared to me, besides the attention to shock there is also a certain approbation or disapprobation at work. That is, the same acts, or outrageous statements are “celebrated” or reported as normal when done by the right, and disparaged when done by the left. Maybe it’s a myopic reading or maybe it’s because the right never apologizes for the outrageous acts of its members and thus outrageousness becomes the new normal — if you are part of that team, while it is still outrageous if you are not. Imagine a Democrat bringing a baseball bat to his concession speech as Paladino did

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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies. From these proceed debt and taxes. And armies, debts and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few...No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

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