Delusion and Negligence: The Two-Party System in the U.S.
With Twitter, texting, and hundreds of cable stations surrounding me, my goal last night was a Herculean one: Avoid at all costs the waste that was the so-called presidential debates.
I've now crested the first half of a century and am sliding into whatever portion of the second half this existence allows me. On the other side of 50, I have vocally joined the late George Carlin in my public denouncing of both political parties, a problematic thing to do for someone associated with the Left. While we may have stereotyped (accurately) conservatives and Republicans as intolerant, few wraths are trumped by a Democrat/progressive scorned.
In the last few years, I have also come to recognize a joint failure between Democrat/Republican politics and the dichotomous educational leadership shared by traditionalists and progressives: The faux-debate between the delusional and the negligent (or as Ben Folds Five would call it, the battle of who could care less).
Delusion and Negligence: The Faux-Battle of Who Could Care Less
