Interview with Matt Taibbi

[Universe Prince]

Over at Reason Online is a short interview with Matt Taibbi, the current chief political reporter for the magazine Rolling Stone. In it Taibbi says something that made me smile.

People are steadily growing disenchanted with red state versus blue state?this really aggressive storyline where if you?re conservative you have to hate liberals, and if you?re liberal then you have to hate conservatives. For the first time on the campaign trail that I?ve seen, people are saying, ?I haven?t spoken to my liberal brother in years but we?re actually talking now because we?re both disappointed in our respective parties, and we?re both getting behind Ron Paul." There?s more on-the-ground energy for Ron Paul than there is for the rest of the candidates combined.

I hope he is correct. The whole interview can be found at the other end of this link.

[The_Professor]

Interesting article. I liked this from the article: "The more democracy you have, the more people can make decisions for their own communities, the more freedom people have."


I, too, dislike this polarization. In order to address this, should the various political parties embrace more diversity in thought? (the Dems not being so held hostage by the more Leftist elements of the Party and the Republicans likewise by their more Rightist adherents)

[Universe Prince]

In order to address this, should the various political parties embrace more diversity in thought?

That would be nice. Seems unlikely though.