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The Trouble With Loyalty PEGGY NOONAN
In politics, ideas are more important than people--or at least they should be.
Friday, March 16, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT
ＷＳＪ（米国版）のオピニオン蘭に寄稿されている記事だけど、ちょっと意味のある評論
で、ＯＰＪにも転載されているもの。
「政治において、人物よりはアイデアが重要である」というテーマを提示して、民主党と
共和党における、アプローチの差を論じている。
Democrats took their leaders more seriously as personalities, as people. They
emotionally invested more in them. FDR's people gave themselves to the boss, and went
on to write the wonderful compelling story: Franklin and Eleanor, he a flighty state
rep, she a flutey-voiced duckling, both of them born to and comfortable in wealth,
then illness, growth, personal drama; he gets sick and finds his strength, she becomes
independent and finds her voice. How many books, films and made-for-TV movies have we
seen of it? All written by Democrats, who were more eager to see the life as a reason
for their loyalty.
この命題が日本国内でも通用するかについては、ディベータブルかもしれないけれど。しかし
共和党支持者にとって、民主党のような思い入れはなく、政治に対するアプローチがより現実
的でクールなのだ、と言う主張は興味あるところ。