The Boston Globe, August 7th, 1990
We get the kind of politics we get because elections are more about feeling than thinking, more about anger than reconciliation, and less about being right than being clever. That being the case, it helps to identify the myths shared widely by voters. Myths are like coffee stains -- hard to eradicate. But myths also perish from time to time. The electorate can shed myths like a practiced shopper working Filene's Basement. You try, you buy -- maybe. Politics is Filene's Basement. Today's bargain: myths that are ready for automatic markdown. Myth 1. John Silber is for shoving old people over th...
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