MB Civic

By Anne Applebaum | Tuesday, January 27, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…Most of us have gotten used to the idea that electoral outcomes cannot always be determined in advance by the political establishment. We’ve also elected, in recent memory, improbable presidents from Arkansas and Georgia; have survived a presidential resignation and an impeachment; have become accustomed to (even blase about) a black man and a black woman running our foreign policy. One’s perception of the present is shaped by one’s experience in the past, and our experience is that democracy, at least when it works, is messy and unpredictable — which is precisely why it seems so implausible to others….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/26/AR2009012601850_pf.html