This Aesthetic Quality, Then, Is What Politics

Media Bias Has Been A Favorite Theme Of The Right For Decades, Of Course.

If Your Purpose Is To Understand The Clique Of People Who Dominate Washington Today, The Emails That Really Matter Are The Ones Being Slowly Released By Wikileaks From The Hacked Account Of Hillary Clinton's Campaign Chair John Podesta.

[the Right] May Never Bring Prayer Back To Schools, But It Has Rescued All Manner Of Rightwing Economic Nostrums From History's Dustbins. Having Rolled Back The Landmark Economic Reforms Of The Sixties (the War On Poverty) And Those Of The Thirties (labor Law, Agricultural Price Supports, Banking Regulation), Its Leaders Now Turn Their Guns On The Accomplishments Of The Earliest Years Of Progressivism (woodrow Wilson's Estate Tax; Theodore Roosevelt's Anti-trust Measures). With A Little More Effort, The Backlash May Well Repeal The Entire Twentieth Century.

It Is Always A Disappointment To Turn From Forthright Consideration Of Some Subject - Whether From The Left Or The Right, A Poet Or A Plumber - To The Beltway Version, In Which The Only Aspects Of The Issue That Matter Are The Effects It Will Have On The Fortunes Of The Two Parties And The Various Men In Power.

Liberal That I Am, I Support Health-care Reform On Its Merits Alone. My Liberal Blood Boils, For Example, When I Read That Half Of The Personal Bankruptcies In This Country Are Brought On, In Part, By Medical Expenses.