Wednesday, November 03, 2004
There will be some who will proclaim this (probable) result a disaster, the end of the world. Three points:
1) The Republicans have had four years in the White House and haven't been able to precipitate the Day of Judgment so far.
2) Presidents in their second term are usually more timid than they were in their first.
3) Whatever sixthformers may have you believe, politicians you may not have voted for can still achieve "good" things. Policies and their consequences are much more important than who implemented them. This seems to confuse a lot of "artists" - hello Harold Pinter - and "intellectuals" (I'll be the judge of that!) who seem unable to deal with any ambiguity or complexity and prefer to explain the world in terms of "good" and "evil", cowboys with white or black hats and monolithic evil empires.*
*Did you see what I did there?
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1) The Republicans have had four years in the White House and haven't been able to precipitate the Day of Judgment so far.
2) Presidents in their second term are usually more timid than they were in their first.
3) Whatever sixthformers may have you believe, politicians you may not have voted for can still achieve "good" things. Policies and their consequences are much more important than who implemented them. This seems to confuse a lot of "artists" - hello Harold Pinter - and "intellectuals" (I'll be the judge of that!) who seem unable to deal with any ambiguity or complexity and prefer to explain the world in terms of "good" and "evil", cowboys with white or black hats and monolithic evil empires.*
*Did you see what I did there?
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