Political Courage

Technically an oxymoron, this term is deployed when politicians want to do bad things to good people, programs, or policies. “We need to find the political courage,” you might hear, “to transform medicare into a private-public hybrid,” or “we need the political courage to privatize the CBC.” One notable exception: the ability to sit through one of George Elliot Clarke’s readings.

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