Where We Live: Anger In Politics
Hyperbolic rhetoric threatens to swamp our politics
By Where We Live - WNPR
Published: Aug 13, 2010
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Where We Live: Anger In Politics
Writer Sasha Abramsky says that our political dialogue is getting long on hyperbolic rhetoric, and short on facts – a sure sign of anger.
Abramsky says that anger against incumbent politicians, against immigrants, against – well – everybody is gaining strength and threatening society.
And it’s not just the tea party, it’s on the left, right and middle. His article “Look Ahead in Anger” is part of an exploration of anger in the Chronicle Review.
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In many ways, whether our political leanings are left, right, or middle of the road, rage is our shared experience these days.
-Sasha Abramsky
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anger in politics
Dankosky's interview with Mr Abramsky made me feel SO relieved that media & good writers such as they are paying attention to the choking of political discourse now taking place. Fearful, selfish, angry old & young people are commandeering the airwaves. WHY are they all given airtime & newspages, when many of their criticisms are either untrue or plain vicious (as the birther nonsense, lies about Social Security, etc. etc.)? Please continue to talk more good sense. NO EQUAL TIME for loopy promotion of false stuff.
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