Anyone who has been paying attention to the Republicans attempt to find the “ideal candidate” has felt as if standing on a curb watching a parade pass by. Or maybe it is that the parade is standing on the curb and we as observers have been passing by.
If there is a lesson to be garnered out of the Republican experience I would suggest that it relates to the unreliability of images presented by politicians. At least some part of the Republican electorate seems to have approached the process as some sort of ‘reality show’. They have begun with the premise that what is presented to them is reality and have routinely accepted it as such uncritically. Of course, in each case they have ended up realizing that what they were sold was misrepresentation and misdirection. One idol after another proved to have feet of clay. It is easy to see what that says about the candidates but more importantly I suggest a need to focus on what that says about the voters. Continue reading “The trouble with idolatry” »
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