Via Electrolite:
Teresa Nielsen Hayden commenting on modern politics (go to her comment on this post):

I find I care less than I used to about the hairsplitting fine points of a politician’s positions, and more about hearing his or her disintermediated voice. It isn’t just a matter of aesthetics. I believe there’s a largely unacknowledged divide between politicians who still believe we’re all members of the same polity, all citizens together; and those for whom I’m just a member of the voting audience, watching but not otherwise a participant in our regularly scheduled pantomime of democracy.

What she said!!
[It’s ironic that I’d misquote a book when talking about an editor, isn’t it?]