>Dddddd0814 at aol.com wrote:
> >
> > [clip]
> > by ALEXANDER COCKBURN
> > and JEFFREY ST. CLAIR
> >
> > So, the Democrats have paid the price for a cowardly, half hearted, inept
> > campaign, and they didn't even see it coming.
>
>A political party, like a whole society, is an ensemble of social
>relations, not a conscious & unified individual of rational choice
>theory. Hence the common practice of personification
>(cowardly/couragegous etc) is rather similar to daily stock market
>reports in which "the market" gains enthusiasm, feels tentative, etc.
you're quite right, carroll. it's a natural human tendency to anthropomorphize things.
i think i like this style of personification a bit better, however, than simply taking the direct approach and calling the democratic party a shitbag. don't you?
R
>But leaving that aside, this mode of description of the DP goes back a
>long ways -- that is, describing in terms of its cowardice, ineptness,
>opportunism, etc. its "failure" to carry out its (implied) _real_ aims.
>Thi