Demoralising (in both senses)

A politics emptied of substantive moral engagement makes for an impoverished civic life.  It is also an open invitation to narrow, intolerant moralisms.  Fundamentalists rush in where liberals fear to tread. (Michael Sandel Justice: What’s the right thing to do?

This fairly accurately describes the current political situation in Australia: from debates about the carbon tax, to asylum seekers, to chaplaincy in schools, to gay marriage and to the mining tax.  

Notes

  1. r-m-o posted this