Friday, June 3, 2022

Amazing Self-Awareness

Former Labor Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair describes how the behavior of his successors on the left, in both Britain and the U.S., has become dysfunctional. Politico has the quote:

Its primary purpose is to make itself feel good about itself, right? To convince itself that it’s principled, right? But that is in the end, something that leads you to self-indulgence.

He describes the politics of Bernie Sanders, AOC and Elizabeth Warren to a T. His is a plea for practical politics, and will therefore probably fall on deaf ears.