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Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
4.0
Nice and candid book about Ignatieff’s nearly six year political career in national Canadian politics. Even though he got beat in 2011 by new politics, he is still positive about politics.
He is realistic about this (content matters less), but probably too optimistic if I am to judge the current affairs in 2020:
“We increasingly have the politics of enemies. In this perversion of the game, politics is modelled as war itself. (...) I thought I was in an election. We were in a reality show. I thought content mattered. I thought the numbers in a platform should add up. Ours did and theirs didn't. None of it mattered.”
Full thread with quotes:
https://twitter.com/wilte/status/1280892754453827594?s=21
He is realistic about this (content matters less), but probably too optimistic if I am to judge the current affairs in 2020:
“We increasingly have the politics of enemies. In this perversion of the game, politics is modelled as war itself. (...) I thought I was in an election. We were in a reality show. I thought content mattered. I thought the numbers in a platform should add up. Ours did and theirs didn't. None of it mattered.”
Full thread with quotes:
https://twitter.com/wilte/status/1280892754453827594?s=21