Friday, July 30, 2010

The Alternative

I want to put up a part of David Kurtz's deconstruction of Rep. Anthony Weiner's speech on the floor of the House.

Too many progressives seem to want to sit on the sidelines until someone, a Marquess of Queensberry, comes along and changes the rules of the game to make it more civilized. What they don't seem to grasp is that democratic politics are the Queensberry rules. They replaced mob rule. The fractiousness, unpredictability, and feralness of politics are vestiges that remind us of what the real alternatives to democracy are. The real alternative is not a debating club and smoking jackets.


Tho Nature, red in tooth and claw




...and then



And what Krgthulu said.

C