Lies

We in this country live with politics that is frantic but trivial. There are no fundamental things contestedthings fundamental because they stir the hearts, minds and lives of virtually everyone.

There was a time when politics could roar like a tempest: politics was antagonism that made an established power quake in body and soul. Today that kind of politics is absent. Solid truthwhich resounds not only in a partisan way, but also in the consciousness of friends and foesis obsolete nowadays. It cannot exist. Today there is contestation solely because of opinion, and with opinion.

November 15, 2016