The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.
The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.
'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.