The Forward party is the latest manifestation of Americans’ misguided hope of “rising above” politics (to use the cliched phrase from the Obama era).
Unfortunately there is no way out but through. Talking to your political opponents reasonably and performatively evincing civility and empty slogans such as “there is no red and blue just Americans” ain’t gonna get us there. The filibuster and gerrymandering and the unreasonable power of the Supreme Court and the electoral college and the unfettered influence of money will still be things at the end of all these slogans.
The system is broken and the horrible truth is that unbreaking it (if possible) will require positively advancing specific reform measures and a painful, unglamorous fight.
Unfortunately there is no way out but through. Talking to your political opponents reasonably and performatively evincing civility and empty slogans such as “there is no red and blue just Americans” ain’t gonna get us there. The filibuster and gerrymandering and the unreasonable power of the Supreme Court and the electoral college and the unfettered influence of money will still be things at the end of all these slogans.
The system is broken and the horrible truth is that unbreaking it (if possible) will require positively advancing specific reform measures and a painful, unglamorous fight.