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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (49146)2/14/2008 8:45:19 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 543061
 
a divisive politics--the politics of fear--is considered as bad as a unifying politics--the politics of hope.

I don't think you've framed that quite right. It's the politics of unwarranted fear vs the politics of outlandish promises. I, for one, find them both unhelpful. Maybe it's a better feeling for the victim to be duped than to be frightened. But on a practical level they are both bogus and both unhealthy.

The politics of pushing the political culture toward addressing infrastructure needs, improving education, ditto for healthcare, etc. is considered as harmful as talk of folk who don't agree with you as not patriots.

Seems to me that that's outside the frame. It's certainly outside my frame. One again, in any example or comparison, there is a key element of match plus a bunch of extraneous elements. Critics will fetch one of the extraneous elements to try to discredit the key element. That's bogus.

Now, since you first offered the comparison, perhaps you had something else in mind but my response was based on the key element of false hopes vs false fears.

Or perhaps you've just missed the falseness of some of Obama's hopes.
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