Politics as a Collection of Desires. Pt C, # 153

The Creating a Sober World

Dick Morris was called in to save the Clinton Campaign in 1995. He set out to do "small bore" politics. To do life style focus group testing and to model Clinton's campaign on the desires of the people and not on creating a good government. Robert Reich refers tot the as the end of the progressive idea of makng people better and more responsible citizens. What emerged was making democracy nothing more that a collection of desires.