Read this compelling article by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Although I disagree with his argument about trascending race (we did, in a way, but this is only just the first step towards an America that will only look at a man for his merits) Friedman has a deep sense of the challenges that lie ahead.
In this article we see not only a reflective tone, but a word of warning of the dangers of extremism. If both parties are threatened by the Tea Party's media and financial savvy it is the GOP who stands to lose more from it. As this lunatic fringe dominates the Republican Party's ideological agenda moderates and centrists within it are either moving out of the party or increasingly afraid to raise their voices to speak out against the polarizing forces that will put this republic on shaky ground politically and socially speaking. Politics not only deals with the exercise of power through decision-making and the formulation of policy. It also deals with how we live with one another (cohabitation or in Spanish convivencia ) after the taking of those decisions and interacting socially with civility. The Tea "Party" does not stand for that. It does stand for the continuing atomization of American society. It displays a pathological hatred of government ...
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