Losing Our Turbulence
13th September 2012
John Derbyshire, Patron Saint of Dyspepsia, waxes nostalgic.
All this illustrates something I spend a lot of time pondering: the strange disconnect between what democratic populations want and what they get—or fail to get—from their politicians.
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Democratic government’s plodding regularities are certainly superior to despotism or prolonged anarchy. But one can’t help feeling it would be character-building for our political classes if a mob were to come around and break their windows now and then.