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September 1, 2010

Third Party Voters Get the Government They Despise

neo-neocon asks and answers, "Democrats or Republicans: does the difference make a difference?"

As I see it, what the Republicans did wrong in the early years of the twenty-first century involved the flaws and frustrations inherent in government itself, a slow bleed of integrity and an accretion of power and of corruption by money. Such imperfections seem to be part and parcel of all government窶覇xcept for some ideal, Platonic one that exists only in our imaginations or legends. The remedy is not to opt out, it is to work for those who seem to be most resistant to such temptations, and to hope they continue to avoid them as long as possible, and then to toss them out as soon as they succumb.

Posted by Vanderleun at September 1, 2010 2:45 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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the larger problem is that the Dems control the bureaucracy and hence it doesn't make too much difference who is "in charge" of the Executive branch.

Posted by: Barnabus at September 1, 2010 5:14 PM

No Doctor, that is not the problem and that is not the solution.

Posted by: james wilson at September 1, 2010 5:47 PM

While it's true that no fox can ever be trusted to guard the hen house,
it does not follow that we must forever be trapped between the
rich-getting-richer party, and the party of progs-going-commie.

"But cheshire puss," asked Alice, "where shall I go from here?"

"That depends," replied the cat, "on where you want to get to."


Posted by: Robert at September 2, 2010 9:49 AM

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