James Lileks' "Yeagh"

Undertoad · 01-30-2004, 04:31 PM

Well, that's how politics just IS. You can get some of what you want, but never ever all of it. Change is not generally possible when the majority is content. Difficult change requires charismatic leaders to promote it.

And when you get the perfect candidate, making the perfect speeches, with the right level of concern about the issues that you really care about, you'll only be disappointed when they don't deliver anyway; or when what they do deliver is endlessly politicized until it doesn't resemble the original concept.

That's the system we live with until we can figure out a better one... which we haven't, yet.

01-30-2004, 04:31 PM	#18
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Well, that's how politics just IS. You can get some of what you want, but never ever all of it. Change is not generally possible when the majority is content. Difficult change requires charismatic leaders to promote it. And when you get the perfect candidate, making the perfect speeches, with the right level of concern about the issues that you really care about, you'll only be disappointed when they don't deliver anyway; or when what they do deliver is endlessly politicized until it doesn't resemble the original concept. That's the system we live with until we can figure out a better one... which we haven't, yet.

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