Democracy doesnt mean progress. it means majority rule. in China in 1989 (this song being '92), democracy had seemed imminent, and that would coincidentally have been progress, by western standards.
I suppose an argument could be made that this Trump victory was more democratic than his previous in that he won the popular vote and didn't have to rely on the Electoral College.
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
Democracy doesnt mean progress. it means majority rule. in China in 1989 (this song being '92), democracy had seemed imminent, and that would coincidentally have been progress, by western standards.
ReplyDeleteI suppose an argument could be made that this Trump victory was more democratic than his previous in that he won the popular vote and didn't have to rely on the Electoral College.
DeleteYes. Then Cohen had it right? Even more so, more incisively, in 'There is a War' from 1974.
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