[Campaigns-l] Progressive Thought

[Peter Saint-Andre]

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Sorry, IANAP (I Am Not A Politician) so I hadn't realized the political
meaning of "issue" -- I'm interested in proposals, not issues.

david kilmer wrote:
> 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.
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