Politics Is Power And Nothing More
by Hamilton Nolan on Splinter, shared by Samer Kalaf from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3F5EH)
Apart from the task of deciding how things should be done morally, there is the more mundane but equally important task of accurately describing how things are done. In American politics, our failure at morality is complete. Our failure to describe this failure makes everything worse.