Subject: [Homestead] What Krugman has to say about this election
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 11:45:19 -0500
"The monster years
Last night wasn’t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn’t just a
mandate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the end of the
monster years.
What I mean by that is that for the past 14 years America’s political
life has been largely dominated by, well, monsters. Monsters like Tom
DeLay, who suggested that the shootings at Columbine happened because
schools teach students the theory of evolution. Monsters like Karl
Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer “therapy and
understanding” to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney, who saw 9/11
as an opportunity to start torturing people.
And in our national discourse, we pretended that these monsters were
reasonable, respectable people. To point out that the monsters were,
in fact, monsters, was “shrill.”
Four years ago it seemed as if the monsters would dominate American
politics for a long time to come. But for now, at least, they’ve been
banished to the wilderness."
From this morning's NYT. I'm not going to bother to link it.
[Homestead] What Krugman has to say about this election,
paxamicus, 11/05/2008