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so i'm sure its been said before, and surely it was said more... poetically... but after a long campbells and coca-cola (so what? the blogosphere is immune to product placement?! fuck you, someone tell me how i can get paid...) induced night of insomnia, i spent some time channel surfing and came to the following conclusion
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1. Political parties are (compulsory) private clubs that have nothing to do with the intended operation of our government.
2. Allegiance of elected officials to the agendas of these clubs outweighs the common good.
3. No one sees any problem with that.
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Jefferson, as well as many others among the founding fathers believed political parties to be a bad thing for this nation, for the exact reason you said in #2. And yet by the time Jefferson was elected president, two factions had already arisen. So their tradition of hypocrcacy continues to today's politicians, who claim to live and die by the fundamentals outlined by the founding fathers, but who have all vigorously ignored the warnings against political parties, just as the founding fathers themselves did.
Argus is absolutely right, it has become so accepted so no one sees any problem with any of it. anyone who did see a problem has already been long since marginalized into nothingness.
"It would not be difficult, Mein Fuhrer. I'm sorry, Mr. President. " -Dr. Strangelove
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and movies, for that matter.
get on that, ok?
(random, that's a haiku.)
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