"The Great Derangement"

Devoured Matt Taibbi's latest book on the airplane ride back to Syracuse. It was exactly what I expected - totally intelligent, thought-provoking and just a great read. There were so many paragraphs in it that I loved - here's one from the afterward, which he wrote during the election, in the fall of 2008, which captures the general theme of the book:

In the end, politics is not about pigs, or lipstick, or middle fingers surreptitiously raised during debates, or whose Mom once shook hands with a Logical Positivist in the fifties, or who waves his flag the hardest, or puts his "Country First," or any of that. Politics is about who gets what. And that's something we don't talk about that much anymore, busy as we are shouting at each other and screaming at the TV and generally being fat, stupid suckers while the thieves in D.C. rob the store.