MB Civic

RHT ..

Color me unsurprised that [] Charles Pierce, has joined the “Vote for him in November, Protest him in February” club with some histrionics in Esquire about the White House sharing more information with Congressional Republicans on Benghazi than it is sharing with Democrats about targeted killing .. for Pierce, it is ‘we’ who ‘have allowed [powers] to leach away from their constitutional points of origin.’ Of course, like all pundits, when Pierce says ‘we’, he doesn’t really include himself. Shills use ‘we’ this way to promote the quaint notion that an oligarch-controlled government really expresses the collective will, while bemoaning the downside of sharing the sacred rites of representative democracy with people dumber and less principled than oneself

he/she makes good point – i hate it when pundits claim “we” allowed such and such to happen, as if “we” actually live in anything resembling a functioning Democracy anymore, which we don’t .. read more