Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman
01/11/08
Let’s face it, politics is a superficial activity in which (most) candidates try to create a mood by pushing buttons expected to stimulate positive responses in significant constituencies. If one button doesn’t have the intended effect, you push another and keep pushing until you have assembled a winning coalition. That’s all you need to know about electoral politics. It explains the staged events, the self-serving declarations about the passion to ’serve,’ and the hubristic claims to the mantle of leadership...
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1809
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
by Sheldon Richman
01/11/08
Let’s face it, politics is a superficial activity in which (most) candidates try to create a mood by pushing buttons expected to stimulate positive responses in significant constituencies. If one button doesn’t have the intended effect, you push another and keep pushing until you have assembled a winning coalition. That’s all you need to know about electoral politics. It explains the staged events, the self-serving declarations about the passion to ’serve,’ and the hubristic claims to the mantle of leadership...
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1809
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sheldon+Richman
rudkla - 14. Jan, 12:25
