December 4, 2014
Pocket paradigms
If you're going to be
serious about politics --
the way a race track aficionado is serious about horses -- then
the first thing you got to figure out is what's fact and what's
fluff, what you can believe and what you can't. Fantasies are
for sex, not politics. And democracies fail not because of excessive
skepticism about their leaders, but rather due to a mass illusion
that everything is going to be all right. Sam Smith
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Sometimes political scientists can do the job, like Hubert Humphrey and Paul Wellstone, but usually it takes lawyers who live from the past, JQA, Sumner, Lincoln, FDR. They understand the ongoing civil war and never pretend that it's over.
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