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Anger, Sadness, and Fear

Submitted by JJ Ross on 13 February 2007 - 12:24am.

are, I feel certain, lousy criteria for picking a president.

I'm having trouble believing it matters who we elect, if no one can make the anger, sadness, and fear enough better and instead we just gin up more for the next two years.

Without some sense of community, some credible context within which to agree on some mythical shared future we supposedly need leaders to help us create, then what's the point of all this anger-sadness-fear??

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