The most atrocious political atrocities this year were crimes against language. Consider, for example, the spectacle of George Bush last August, during the Soviet coup, railing against evil “rightwingers” and praising the “liberals.”
The Committee on Decent Unbiased Campaign Tactics (CONDUCT), organized after the 1983 mayoral campaign to deal with the untoward racial rhetoric of that race, quickly became the organizational equivalent of those rusting tanks that many police departments bought in 1969 to cope with the urban riots of ’66, ’67, and ’68. Things changed.
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Quoth Martin: ” . . . maybe from time to time we should curtail some of those rights.”
But the reverse psychology and the independent psychology worked and Preckwinkle defeated Evans, who had a perfect independent record, and Preckwinkle went into the City Council, where she began voting with the Daley administration against the independents. That’s called reverse independence or being independent of the independents or maybe a Declaration of Psychology.
