It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.
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Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
The future is much like the present, only longer.
The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
The future will use and dispose of the memories of people that we knew as history sees fit.
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without.
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