"What we are witnessing is the beginning -- the early movement--in the death of the two-party system as we know it. This is a revolt of the pragmatic center. And that is a good thing for the American people because those parties and the media that feed on them have indeed become a form of nomenklatura. They depend on each other. They are the mutual gate keepers of an old and sclerotic bureaucracy from which their jobs flow in a system of patronage as elaborate as the Czar's. No wonder watching CNN tonight I felt as if I were watching a wake. They are threatened by what is going onï¿‘as they should be." -- Roger L. Simon: Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter
Posted by Vanderleun at October 7, 2003 9:43 PM