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The audacity of the new politics

Published: March 26 2008 19:47 | Last updated: March 26 2008 19:47

Do you have the audacity of hope? Or the urgency of now? Perhaps you feel the audacity of now and the urgency of hope; or the ferocity of what: the adverb of where; the gerund of when or the vacuity of who. Then you are ready for a new kind of politics.

What are the defining features of The New Politics? Well, for a start the new politics is good. This is important because the old politics was bad. The old politics is sterile; the new politics is vibrant. The new politics is hope; the old politics is despair. If you are the candidate, the old politics is your opponent; the new politics is you.

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