Posts tagged Duopoly
Mike Billy
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“Under Democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right…” - H. L. Mencken
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Why Republicans have no heart and Democrats have no balls.
This is absolutely hilarious and the most brilliant piece of political skewering I’ve seen in a long time.
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Love that this is a front page above-the-fold headline in USA Today.
Best. Yard sign. Ever.
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When great political parties begin to cool in their attachments without softening their hatreds, and at last reach the point of wishing less to succeed than to prevent the success of their opponents, one should prepare for servitude—the master is near.
The ever-prescient Alexis de Tocqueville predicting one way that party politics in America might crumble.
In other words, when political parties start arguing for their supremacy based on the opposing parties faults trouble is near. Oh wait, we are already there. How many times have you heard someone say, “Yeah, Obama isn’t great, but I really don’t like Romney. Obama is the lesser of two evils!”?
