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Whoa, I think my heart skipped a beat when I saw that
Phew, let me catch my breath
Dynamic tension is the basis for our constitutional system of checks & balances. It also allows conventional stick-framed houses and suspension bridges to stand up. It’s an excellent way to achieve something stable.
As a boy, it was drummed into me by my teachers & the media of the day that Russia was bad, being communist. (That was an Article of Faith. The nature of communism was never really explained. I had to figure out on my own that is wasn’t “bad” as in evil, just “bad” because it doesn’t work.) The thing that allowed communism to be so bad was that it was a One-Party State.
But apparently rule by a single party is a bad idea if it comes from Lenin, but a good idea if it comes from Rove.
I’m no fan of the two-party system, but it is an improvement over only having one. If a two party system is to function in the interest of the Nation, the following needs to be remembered by all involved:
Placing your party ahead of your nation is treason.
The “Hill-dawg Corollary” is: Placing your own obsessively vain self-interest ahead of the interest of your party is certain to destroy that party and leave us with essentially a one-party state.
Not as pithy, I’ll grant you; but just as true, I submit.
Not exactly Elvis, Roy, Johnny, and Jerry Lee, is it? But, let’s face facts, of all these clowns, I’ll take the devil I don’t know. Time to turn the page (isn’t hope audacious?)