On 10/29/06, Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Really. Just the opposite seems to be going on here, where politics is the art of appealling to the people (usually in a dishonest way, as when the Mayberry Machiavellians like Rove pretend to be devout Christians).
Yeah, what passes for electoral politics in the USA is basically an arms race between money bags: in a majority of cases, a candidate who spends more money than her opponent wins. That depoliticizes people, which in turn helps the ruling class. Since we don't have money, though, we have to do politics in an old-fashioned way, winning over people! -- Yoshie <http://montages.blogspot.com/> <http://mrzine.org> <http://monthlyreview.org/>
