“Calm down, everybody, please. It’s only politics, for goodness sake. None of these gasbags is going to lower your taxes, eliminate a major government program, establish orderly and rational immigration, ‘defeat evil,’ outlaw abortion, give five seconds’ thought to congressional term limits or the prohibition of public-sector unions, or do any of the other things that conservatives want done. We stared down the U.S.S.R. till the thing fell apart from its own internal contradictions. That was the great conservative achievement of the later 20th century. Possibly there’ll be another one in the 21st century, but not for a few decades yet. In the meantime, government power will steadily increase, individual liberty will steadily decrease, our economy will get still more gummed up with litigation and regulation, more and more kids will attend college to less and less purpose, we shall lose a couple more tall buildings to crazy terrorists, we shall go trash a couple more no-account ‘countries’ in retaliation, and the Republic will stagger along somehow, electing a Tweedledum or a Tweedledee to supreme executive office every four or eight years. This you can take to the bank.”
-John Derbyshire
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Well, at least he's an optimist.
The elections remind me of high school when the candidates would tell you they were going to work for less homework and better lunches, and you knew they were going to work on the homecoming float and oversee prom.
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