Currently on Adam Curtis’s blog there’s a fantastic BBC documentary on Norman Mailer’s failed bid for the Democratic nomination for Mayor of New York City in 1969.

One voter is asked, what does he like about Mailer? His answer reminds us that even at the high water mark of the bi-partisan era of American politics, voters held exactly the same concerns over candidates and political parties.

VOTER: “He’s different. He thinks… He’s willing to argue… He’s not willing to kowtow to the party bosses… We’d had so much of the ordinary politics for New York”

It’s worth watching in full.

Hat tip: @witteringwest