“Real Politics, Anyone?” in Commonweal

In a recent article in Commonweal titled “Real Politics, Anyone?” Margaret O’Brien Steinfels says to politicians what many of us are thinking: don’t focus your energy on tricking us into voting for you; instead be the kinds of leaders that we want to elect. Decrying the current obsession with demographics, she writes about how campaigners carefully craft “messages” that will create quasi-coalitions of voters with big enough majorities to win at the polls. That ghost-strategy may win elections, but it contributes to our overall disillusionment— especially when the mass of us realize (too… Read more “Real Politics, Anyone?” in Commonweal →