[Peace-discuss] Caught in the Palin drome

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Liberal pundits, who for a year could say only how stupid Sarah Palin was, have 
suddenly decided she is "canny" (Raban in NYRB) and "cunning" (Rich in the NYT). 
But we need to think of her presence as the symptom, not the disease.  A better 
job of diagnosis is done in the article below.  --CGE]

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8088/

"...in recent weeks a number of liberal writers have blamed the American people 
for Obama’s lack of success in office. In a Slate article entitled ‘Down with 
the people’, Jacob Weisberg writes that the ‘biggest culprit’ for the current 
political paralysis is ‘the childishness, ignorance, and growing incoherence of 
the public at large’. And, in New York magazine, Kurt Andersen writes of his 
dislike for today’s populism, arguing that ‘American democracy has gotten way 
too democratic’, and ‘the walls [the founding fathers] erected to contain the 
mob may no longer hold’. It is all reminiscent of Berthold Brecht’s wry advice 
to the East German [government] in the 1950s ‘to dissolve the people and elect 
another’..."



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