Show me a hero david simon8/17/2023 That is a remarkable revolution in mainstream American political thought.ĭavid Simon during filming for ‘Show Me a Hero.’ Matt McClain/The Washington Post/Getty Yet somehow, when people of color arrive to look towards the same dynamics, it becomes why are we building houses for the poor? We went from the idea that government can do some good things for people and can do things to lift up people who have the least in our society, to government shouldn’t be in the business helping anybody. And, at the time, it was looked as one of the healthiest anti-Depression initiatives undertaken. It was an idea that was undertaken for white people. Why has housing policy changed in the last few decades? That’s an unending, unyielding, never-ending fight. Yes, it’s a constant struggle to diminish the effects of bad governance. If we’re not the government, then philosophically the America experiment is over. We the people are the government it’s either that, or it’s all over. But they always dissolve into the incredible juvenile notion that the solution for bad governance is no governance. There are certainly places - for example, the drug wars - where I find myself in complete agreement with the libertarian ideal. The rise of libertarianism in this country. What are you most disappointed by in the political discourse? And that fear can be applied to almost any act of communal purpose that the government might take on. That’s the sum of our fears, that my life might be displaced. Political leaders are responsive to voters. The fear of change, the fear of any bad outcome. That shit is what pays and punishes politicians, money and fear. On some level, I think that there are two currencies that operate in politics to a far more profound effect than goodwill or sentiment. Isn’t there a reckoning though? The front page of the New York Times say race relations are worse than ever, and that’s under a black president.Īll due respect to Barack Obama, or anyone that’s in public office. It’s us. It’s a significant plurality of Americans who would prefer to have these two Americas, that are growing much too distinct and separated. ![]() ![]() I don’t mean to blame just the political system, because clearly leading on the issue of race politically is something of a third rail - but we’re the fucking electricity running through the rail.
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