tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31037809.post-2357508735536079562008-07-24T00:05:00.004-05:002008-07-24T00:28:47.442-05:00

Over at Distributed Republic, Brandon Berg wonderfully captures my own attitude towards mainstream politics: The problem with pragmatism is that it's just not practical. Ideal pragmatism is great--freed from ideological constraints, you can just do what works!--but ideal pragmatism isn't an option. What we actually get is real-world pragmatism: People's beliefs about what policies produce the

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