diocre Presidents, it would be long gone.” I think Will’s dead wrong; America is no better than its politicians and those who elect them. Why does he let the voters off the hook?
It is difficult to believe that it is folly to look for leaders who might be able to solve some of our most critical problems. Yet Robert Fitch, writing in The Nation, says that Americans need to discover “that this particular wizard [Perot] has no better idea of how to get them out of their troubles than they do.” So Perot doesn’t have the answer; the people who think he does don’t have the answer. Who’s got the answer? Mansfield says “the system” is the answer. Then why do we harbor this not so quiet sense of desperation?
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