Word: politicization
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As Ellen Frankfort wrote in the Village Voice, Kennedy tried to use "illogic to prod into consciousness the undercover connections between the wastes of the body and the stench of the body politic."
The sobering lesson to be drawn from the past few months is that the procedural is always substantive, that technical debates will always be resolved by a body politic manifestly unqualified to decide them. The issue is not that people are too stupid to govern themselves, but that no one...
Appearances have always been important to Daniels. In Reagan's White House, he quietly urged chief of staff Donald Regan to step down because the Iran-contra scandal was on his watch. (Regan stayed, and Daniels left.) Fresh out of Princeton in 1971, Daniels went to work for Lugar, then...
There have been some high-profile busts of crooked officials. Last month 14 people were sentenced to death in connection with a $10 billion oil-, car- and cigarette-smuggling case in the southern port city of Xiamen. The alleged ringleader Lai Changzing is currently fighting extradition in Canada. But despite...
And so on. Make a start. The intent would not be punitive but, rather, therapeutic and resuscitative. The body politic has grown unwholesome - stale with egos that have overstayed. Time to prune the fruit tree and hope for new shoots.