A commonly held view is that both the Dems and the GOP are in fact one single party designed to fool Americans into thinking they have a choice. That all politicians take orders from some shadowy group out to ruin lives, expect for Ron Paul who's as pure as new snow. Thus pointing out that people do actually vote for different parties at different periods is seen as "drinking the kool-aid".
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Started by acidhead , Nov 20 2012 06:49 AM
Started by acidhead , Nov 20 2012 06:49 AM
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Posted 24 November 2012 - 07:45 PM
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse...A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Posted 25 November 2012 - 02:27 AM
Corp, on 24 November 2012 - 07:45 PM, said:
A commonly held view is that both the Dems and the GOP are in fact one single party designed to fool Americans into thinking they have a choice. That all politicians take orders from some shadowy group out to ruin lives, expect for Ron Paul who's as pure as new snow. Thus pointing out that people do actually vote for different parties at different periods is seen as "drinking the kool-aid".
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.
- Carrol Quigley
"there is no wrong or right - just popular opinion"
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