RE: what would it take to reform a government?
December 9, 2010 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: December 9, 2010 at 4:25 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(December 9, 2010 at 3:54 pm)Mishka Wrote: And yet "The One" is appearing to be running to the center. Why? Cause liberal progressives got their butts kicked in the last election.
Ah... right. The Nov 2010 election was so damaging to the democrats that they maintained complete control of the senate and just barely lost control of the house.
Despite polls saying that Republicans had a greater wind to their backs than they did in '94. How's all that hard-line ultraconservative rhetoric working out for them? Nowadays the center is just a place for RHINOs to go when they're kicked out of the Red State club.
You know what I love about the tea party candidates now though? Many of the so-called deficit hawks and hardliners on earmarks and soaking up billions in spending and earmarks already.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
