We invite readers to take a look at this article from the political blog Facing South on the recent events concerning former Speaker of the North Carolina House Jim Black. We found it to be both insightful and cautionary.
In George Orwell’s seminal classic 1984, O’Brien tells Winston Smith as he is tortured in the Ministry of Love that power is not a means, but an end in itself. Is this something that politicians and voters alike are cynical enough to accept in 2007 as par for the course, or can will still hold to the ideal that political power is indeed a public trust? Let your thoughts on this or anything else be known on todays’s open line.