Erasmus, FCD
Posts: 6349
Joined: June 2007
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| Quote | | To congratulate supporters of a political candidate for winning an election seems to highlight a basic disconnect between the electorate and what political discourse should be. The point of political action should not be winning the race (yet it so often is...flash forward 3 months when all our politicians will be focusing on reelection instead of doing their jobs), but on governance. As a society, we focus so much (exclusively?) on the race and the identity politics that we mostly forget--or are apathetic to--the real business of government. |
blipes very true.
yet it moves.
i suggest that if one approaches the issue as objectively as Louis recommends, that such ethical claims about what 'should be' are irrelevant. Not in principle, and that is the rub, but in practice.
At the bottom it really is Root Hog Em All. Ends justify the means, or at least as soon as the courts and the legislature catch up. Here's to 4 more years of circus. I just hope the most ridiculous jokers get in (don't have my mind made up which crowd that is yet) so we can be well entertained and have something to bitch about constructively.
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You're obviously illiterate as hell. Peach, bro.-FtK
Finding something hard to believe based on the evidence, is science.-JoeG
the odds of getting some loathsome taint are low-- Gordon E Mullings Manjack Heights Montserrat
I work on molecular systems with pathway charts and such.-Giggles
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