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24 Oct 2007 02:55 pm
The Personal And The Political
Megan vents:
Apparently, the only people allowed to comment on health care are
uninsured diabetics from East New York . . . which makes any discussion
moot, because that sure doesn't describe any of my interlocutors.
There's a weird presumption that the political must be
personal. To be sure, class and income and background affect our
thinking in subtle ways. But they don't make it impossible to develop,
or maintain, a principled belief that runs against one's own immediate
self-interest. What's the Matter with Kansas? might more properly have been titled What's the Matter with Thomas Frank?
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