The Noise and Rage and Endless Chatter

by Rod Edwards on June 14, 2009

…and because politics seems to speak so little to what they are going through – because they understand that politics today is a business and not a mission, and what passes for debate is little more than a spectacle – they turn inward, away from the noise and rage and endless chatter. [Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope]

If the Liberals trigger an election Monday, I imagine even more Canadians will be alienated from our increasingly self-referential, navel-gazing, game-playing political system.

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