malleable

From E.L Doctorow’s editorial (2004)|Easthampton Star

 The president we get is the country we get. With each president the nation is conformed spiritually. He is the artificer of our malleable national soul. He proposes not only the laws but the kinds of lawlessness that govern our lives and invoke our responses. The people he appoints are cast in his image. The trouble they get into, and get us into, is his characteristic trouble. Finally, the media amplify his character into our moral weather report: he becomes the face of our sky, the conditions that prevail. 

~I’m not a registered voter. At age 24, that’s really embarrassing. But this here is a very good piece & my man Doctorow has got it down to a science. read the full article here.