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Quote by: Chancellor That was an entirely different era. |
Oh really?... how convenient.
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Quote by: Chancellor Political parties become viable when people vote for them and there are a lot more people with ideas that are on the "political fringes" than we might think. |
Again... Oh really? Ron Paul decided to bring his fringe platform into the mainstream by running as a Republican. But folks take one look at his platform and see it's too radical for them. So even in a field of dramatic under-achievers, Paul is doing really well to manage a paltry 8%.
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Quote by: Chancellor See above. |
(") Nope, I don't see anything up there that changes this.
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Quote by: Chancellor There is a lot of truth to this. Politicians are in the same category as used car salesmen and televangelists. |
And since our livelyhoods often depend on how the country's being run, it seems to be that we should accept this unfortunate fact and try to choose the best from the choices we have.... not throw up our hands in dispair and whine about the choices we don't.
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Quote by: Chancellor I'm not sure I agree with such a glowing assessment. |
It didn't seem all that glowing to me... more along the line of Sir Winston Churchill's assessment....
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."