"Honesty Lite"
I was poking around today and found this speech by State Sen. Stan Rosenberg on his website called "Where Are We Going, And Why Are We In This Handbasket?" He apparently first gave it in May of 2005, but it seems still appropriate today. Here's a snippet that I particularly like, as he works his way through his Alice in Wonderland metaphor for the Culture War, pitting the two forces he calls "Regressives" and "Progressives": The Regressives are winning, and they have been winning for years because Progressives, so cowed by the virulence of the radical elements of the Regressive movement, have adopted a squishy strategy that I'll call "honesty lite," an attempt to soften hard realities in order to lure people who haven't jumped in, but are still hovering somewhere around the Rabbit Hole.
Rosenberg has been recovering from heart surgery and I don't know if he will be working the floor at tomorrow's Constitutional Convention as he did in 2004.
Rosenberg has been recovering from heart surgery and I don't know if he will be working the floor at tomorrow's Constitutional Convention as he did in 2004.