David CookIn the summer of 2005, Bill Brock stood before the Rotary Club of Chattanooga and began his lunchtime speech with a question that I fear – nearly eight years later – we have yet to hear the answer to.
“What has happened to politics in this country?” the former U.S. senator asked.
The same question gnaws at you, doesn’t it?
Brock’s rich talk (available online with this column) has a prophetic feel to it. He had already sensed the shifting political plates driving people apart. The slow extinction of civility. The death of the quest for common ground. The end of political kindness.
How far we have fallen from then to now.