[Campaigns-l] Progressive Thought

[david kilmer]

There's one aspect of "issues" that's important. I think the main barrier  
to the "smartness" that Mr. Wales spoke of is the difficulty of getting to  
an informed state without doing a *lot* of searching, reading, and  
de-spinning. Rather than murky ideological "issues", I'd like to see  
specific *proposals* analyzed. If someone is proposing a tax cut, who is  
it going to benefit in real numbers, and what are the possible effects? I  
think some ruthless analysis would force politicians to speak in a  
language of specific proposals rather than ideological issues.

-- david

On Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:50:02 -0400, Ben Hubbird <hubbird at efn.org> wrote:

> Politicians love issues (especially bivalent ones) because they are easy.
> We should hate them because they insult our intelligence as citizens and
> perpetuate the myth that we are divided by some impermeable ideological
> barrier.