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101. There is no rule about discussing history

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but from what I've observed, most prefer mythology.

If the entire focus remains on individuals, then there is no future for the party or democracy. It would be nice if people decided that issues, principles, and policy actually mattered rather than engineering everything to promote one person's career. That of course would require something beyond the Manichaean worldview that dominates politics today. From what I have seen in the campaign and in the postmortem forum since, I see no signs of a desire to change that. Determining certain people are perfect and others are sell- outs is easier than actually having to think about issues and policies in productive terms. That particular development is relatively recent, (rather its revival since societies were once dominated by kings and strongmen) and, I believe, indicative of the decline of the kind of political culture necessary to sustain democracy. That is not doing the same thing over and over again. It is making it decidedly worse.