Silver, thou hast hit upon a point!Silver wrote: ↑June 15th, 2017, 2:38 pm The great tragedy of the American political scene is the great division among the people while those at the top are working in concert. Hence, we have strong Red Team vs Blue Team rivalries yet our indebtedness and slavery proceed in one direction -- to the bad. Government control of everything.
Case in point, Michelle just posted this:
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I will start with this quote because I saw someone deny the other day that such an idea had ever even been proposed.
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Lamar Alexander November 1989 Kansas Education Conference
"I would think the brand new American school would be open year round-open from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. A second characterization might be that these schools would serve children from 3 months to 18 years of age. A shocking thought to you-but if you were to do an inventory of every baby in your community and think about the needs of those babies for the next four or five years, you might see that those needs might not be served in any other way-they have to be served in some way-and maybe around the school. Or if you study a little more, you might go back to think the school might need to serve the pregnant mother of the baby in terms of prenatal care.
After making the speech, Alexander was named U.S. Secretary of Education by President George Bush."
Two parties, one head. Or is it many heads?"The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either."
- Theodore Roosevelt, The Outlook, July 27, 1912
We will not escape the trap of false dichotomy by voting for the same two parties that are connected to the same head.