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- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Copyright
- © 2012 David Graeber
- ISSN
- 1059-9789
- eISSN
- 2164-926X
- DOI
- 10.1162/BFLR_a_00090
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
[ S a lvos ] Can’t Stop Believing Magic and politics [ pa r t 1] 3 David Gr aeber oliticians are by definition dishonest. All politicians lie. But many observers of American politics agree that over the last few years, there has been something of a qualitative change in the magnitude of political dishonesty. In certain party precincts, at least, there seems to have been a conscious attempt to change the rules to allow for a level of flagrant, over-the-top lying about political opponents that we rarely see in other countries. Sarah Palin and her “death panels†pioneered the new style, but Michele Bachmann quickly took things to even more spectacular heights with her wild claims of government plots to impose sharia law on the United States or secret plans to abandon the dollar and replace it with the Chinese yuan. Mitt Romney didn’t top either Palin or Bachmann in the grandeur and magnificence of his lies, but he did try to make up for it in volume, having based his entire presidential campaign on an endless string of fabrications. Many of the lies coming out of the Republican side are, in fact, so brazen that it’s
Journal
The Baffler – MIT Press
Published: Nov 1, 2012