I love Frank Rich (hopefully start of a weekly column on a column)
Posted by luminescence on November 13, 2007
Let’s be honest, Frank Rich is the conscience of our times. Or at least a really good writer who by the end of his week in review columns (one of the major reasons I trudge through the 200+ pages of the Sunday times) has me in tears.
The losses to our country over the last six years are truly staggering. We know it, we feel it, but we feel powerless to do anything about it. Reading Rich, you feel like you’re seeing sunlight again, for the first time in a long time. After trudging through the irrational fog of deceitful leaders, hucksters, fascists and relativists who claim to be conservatives but are truly nothing more than demagogues, I read Rich and feel like I’m getting my bearings again.
I’ve been so checked out politically for so long now, just plain depressed with no hope that this country will ever get itself together again. And he doesn’t help, to be honest, but at the same time he makes me feel like there’s right in the world still if we’d only just be honest and true to our ideals and ourselves.
What’s most disturbing about Rich’s column this week, and rings most true to me, is the truly dangerous nature of the democrats’ and liberals’ conceit that somehow if we can just sweep out the current admin we’ll be able to rectify the current situation, both in this country and without. That somehow we can erase the last few years as if it were all just a bad nightmare. But the degradation of our democracy and our nation is real and there’s no quick fix for what Bush and his cronies have done in the name of their particular brand of freedom.
