Politics in Washington is a combination of many factors. Some of these are contrapuntal, with strong sounds of dissonance. Fear, obedience, strategy, tactics, principles, consensus, leadership, and survival are among the many diverse, contradictory, but sometimes sonorous overtones. The music is certainly played in a minor key, with multiple tonalities. All these are motives as well as operations, all portions of this strange symphonic band. Perhaps this has always been; the best leaders had a sense on how to arrange this strange concoction into a harmonious symphony of achievement. This was in the past when politicians could be maneuvered into their place in the orchestra of legislation. Perhaps the current leaders simply don’t understand the fundamentals of political music. Perhaps the current politicians are so tone-deaf there is little understanding of how this music is made, much less played. We also have especially too many minor players wanting to be soloists
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