:: Mistaking a sea change for a lake change ::

Wednesday, November 03, 2004

I've got... lots to say today (not necessarily all politically-oriented), but even more work to do, so I'll just start out with this and hope I can get around to the rest later: I am beginning to wonder whether the progressive movement of the first half of twentieth century American politics was an aberrance, given the opportunity to make a mark by the fluke of an ephemeral populist surge and one catastrophic economic market breakdown, and only allowed the sustained duration to make that mark effectual through the administrative buttressing of two international conflicts (the Spanish-American War and WWII, both of which helped put or keep a Roosevelt in office). If so, what we have seen over the past 25 years is more of a course correction than the cyclical swing of a political pendulum, the continuation of a long, slow, inexorable descent into a world full of tickling the erogenous zones that are our wallets and reactionary, sentimental anxiety.

Posted by morland @ 09:40 AM

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