Titanic Post

by Sam Smith
Progressive Review

As always happens, as soon as I say something nice about a political candidate, I find myself in trouble.

Part of the problem may be that I think about political candidates differently than a lot of people. Unlike many, I don’t see myself as part of some great collective of St. Peters at the gate deciding who should get into heaven and then, in a strange twist of metaphor, come back to earth and save us. Rather I think of politicians as one more tool in social and political change and the first question that jumps to my mind is: what can they do for us?

I expect them to fail, con, double-cross and desert, but before they betray us too much I would like to get a civil liberties bill or universal healthcare passed. Read more…