Accepting the Unacceptable
Today's Politicians, Especially Democrats, Will Do Anything to Maintain Power--And Voters Apparently Accept It
Pragmatist politicians have only ineluctably worsened over the past half century.
Pragmatism, unfortunately, is not synonymous with practicality or being “pragmatic”. As a philosophy that eschews principles of any kind and endorses acting on the unthinking range of the moment to do anything at all to remove obstacles from one’s path, it is the least practical philosophy.
Richard Nixon, an arch-Pragmatist, adhered to some vestigial old-fashioned principles of decency. He was recorded on March 21, 1973, referring to some aspect of the coverup of the Watergate break-in, “No—it is wrong that’s for sure.” (See here—scroll to the bottom.) This was certainly inconsistent with his Pragmatism. (Nixon’s Pragmatism is beyond the scope of this piece, but they included the Nixon Shock, which climaxed fifty-three years ago today and led to, inter alia, the inflation that is more ruinous than ever now, and his hobnobbing with Chairman Mao Zedong, which was also wrong for sure and opened the door to today’s problems with China.)
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