Jonathan Franzen on difference between left and right

[dancingme]

We are relatively the adult party

From the UK Guardian:

"Now people left of the middle feel puzzled and sort of anguished because we don’t have an object for our anger, but the right is still as angry as ever. I mean, that’s the worrisome thing about our upcoming elections. .  .  . The right is still just as angrily motivated as ever, and the Democrats are in disarray and feeling, well, we have power but the system itself is so screwed up, and we are relatively the adult party, so we are, you know, we are responsible for trying to make an unworkable system work. It’s this kind of—ugh!—discouragement and dull throbbing anxiety."

[dancingme]

1. link

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2010/oct/25/jonathan-franzen-freedom

[TheKentuckian]

2. Fuck that shit. Being the "grown ups" is a heaping, stinking pile O FAIL

[xchrom]

3. There is no coherent Left in the U.S. Nt