The Pessimism Beat - Lisa Schiffren - The Corner on National Review Online
She believes that constantly being told to be positive crowds out the indignation and unhappiness that makes people take action. Of course, this has a political analogue. Few politicians dare spell out the direness of most actual situations — because voters don't like negativity. So we get a politics of unreality. Hope and Change. Ehrenreich wants different action than I — we — do. But she's right about the forces of idiocy.
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