the hilton.

a moment of clarity.

words.

"That’s what dominates our politics: a war to gain or maintain turf, not a battle for a better America. You see that in the negativity and political gyrations of the 2014 campaigns.

...But what are all these politicians running toward? I know more about what they want to destroy than about what they yearn to create. That’s partly because of all the campaign spending that’s funneled through outside groups, which tend not to produce inspiring ads for the candidates they support but blistering ones against the candidates they oppose.

The system is toxic that way, and seems to have only enough oxygen to recycle known people and ideas, not to introduce and nurture new ones.

...How a country so rightly anxious about the days ahead stays fixed in the days behind is the great paradox of the 2014 elections."

THE NEW YORK TIMES: American Horror Story