It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.
The more people explore the world the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.