Politics will break your heart

[pecunium]

What she said.

Me, I've always been too much the reporter, so the most I've ever been is disappointed (libertango and I were chastised, gently, by my, then, girlfriend's father for not being crushed when Dukakis lost).

But he and I also went to the Cranston headquarters, and saw people devastated by his defeat.

Politics should break your heart, because you ought to care, at a deep; and visceral level. It's about who we are, and what we will be, and how the world will be when we leave.

It's about today, and tomorrow. It's for our children, and their children. It's about empathy for everyone else (and if I could rub some lamp, and get just one wish, it would be for everyone on the planet to be more empathetic).

If you're doing it right, politics will break your heart.

Comments

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

If you're immobilized by something as simple as a broken heart, then how do you find the strength to BE a political animal?

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

I have no idea how to answer this because I don't think we speak the same language. The opposite of simple is complex. Death is simple, or can be. Ruptured aorta, bleed out, bang, you're dead. Simple. Yet, kinda hard to overcome.

So, to borrow your phrasing: "If you're immobilized by something as simple as death, then how do you find the strength to BE a political animal?" Does not compute.

I assume what you mean by "simple" is really "trivial" or "minor" or "easily overcome," but if these are terms you mean to apply to having a broken heart, then I don't think we understand the term "broken heart," in ways that are mutually comprehensible. So again, I have no idea how to answer you. You are speaking an alien language.