No easy answers to the hard questions

Matt Stoller at My DD has some thoughts on bloggers, the media and the mythical centrists, well worth reading in full. The last grafs nail the "elephant in the room."

It is much harder to discuss, but ultimately much more fruitful, to talk about why there is so much corruption and dishonesty within the party, within the media, within corporate America, and within our government. Why won't Jim Brady reveal those missing comments? Why does failure get promoted in the Democratic Party? Why is Chris Matthews constantly lying about the left, and why isn't there a revolt among journalists at his pollution of this craft?

These are the real questions to answer, but they aren't easy, because they demand that the people in power question themselves.

Even harder, it requires them to listen to the answers, all of them, even the ones that prove them wrong. And therein lies the crux of the problem. Somewhere along the line, flexiblity and compromise have become confused with fallibility and weakness.