ABOUT MY MOTIVESby David Brin, Ph.D.Copyright © 2006, by David Brin. All rights reserved. No duplication or resale without permission. Keep remembering, throughout this study, that our topic is political methodology. While I make no effort to conceal my preference for one side over another in today's dismal dichotomy, that preference is not the issue at hand. In fact, the thing that I object to most strongly is something that could arise whoever happens to be in power! It is a secretive monopoly of power by elements that seem determined never to allow accountability to flow again. If Democrats ruled, and tried the same things, I hope and pray that I would object just as loud. No, we are not here to compare the relative merits of liberal or conservative worldviews. Rather, the matter that now concerns us is the profound difference in strategy and tactics that have been employed by left and right, during the last two decades of political struggle. |