Ah, Politics. Not so long ago I was talking about a moderate, a liberal, and a conservative who walked into a bar and the bartender said ”Hello Mitt” and now I stand united behind all three of them! Because you know what: politics is as much about ideas as it is about people. And there are moments, quite a lot of them in politics, when it is ideas that should give way to people, not the other way round.
Yes, it is embarrassing to show interest in such an irrational, noisy and uneducated system, but there is a saving grace for Democracy: it may be of poor quality, but it's still politics.
You may be wondering why I get so excited by the US presidential elections. A stupid question - we're all American now, or to be precise: we're still - just about - American, but slowly turning yellow.
*I can't say which I felt more: sorry or amused when I ran into two Mormon missionaries in Warsaw, who proceeded to explain to me that between Jesus' Ascension and Mr Joseph Smith's discovery of some new books of the Old Testament (and some old ones of the New Testament) on a few gold tablets somewhere upstate New York the whole of Christianity disappeared from the surface of the earth and people such as St Jerome, St Augustine, St Aquinas, St Benedict, St Francis, St Teresa of Ávila and a few others were completely irrelevant, religion-wise. Bless them.
The framed poster
