David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a 'Brain-Dead Liberal'

Escrito em 2008, este artigo do escritor David Mamet explica porque ele deixou de ser um liberal [esquerda nos EUA]. O artigo é um clássico e como tal foi ignorado pela intelligentsia Ivy league yankee e seu autor amaldiçoado... Vale a pena ler: I think that people, in circumstances of stress, can behave like swine, and that this, indeed, is not only a fit subject, but the only subject, of drama. I'd observed that lust, greed, envy, sloth, and their pals are giving the world a good run for its money, but that nonetheless, people in general seem to get from day to day; and that we in the United States get from day to day under rather wonderful and privileged circumstances—that we are not and never have been the villains that some of the world and some of our citizens make us out to be, but that we are a confection of normal (greedy, lustful, duplicitous, corrupt, inspired—in short, human) individuals living under a spectacularly effective compact called the Constitution, and lucky to get it.