Excerpted from Civic Duty by Peter Suderman 18 Aug 2009 09:50 pm
I don’t think it’s possible to have a politically involved citizenry and avoid the sort of nuttiness we’ve seen. This — the chaos and absurdity of competing interests fighting for what they want and believe — is what politics looks like.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/08/civic-duty.html
I feel this way myself some days, but then I remember Grandma in the film Parenthood:
You know, when I was nineteen, Grandpa took me on a roller coaster… Up, down, up, down. Oh, what a ride! … I always wanted to go again. You know, it was just so interesting to me that a ride could make me so frightened, so scared, so sick, so excited, and so thrilled all together! Some didn’t like it. They went on the merry-go-round. That just goes around. Nothing. I like the roller coaster. You get more out of it.
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