“Having someone who is the brother of one former president and the son of another run against the wife of still another former president would be sweetly illustrative of all sorts of degraded and illusory aspects of American life, from meritocracy to class mobility.
That one of those two families exploited its vast wealth to obtain political power, while the other exploited its political power to obtain vast wealth, makes it more illustrative still: of the virtually complete merger between political and economic power, of the fundamentally oligarchical framework that drives American political life.”
Glenn Greenwald
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”
Phillip K. Dick
“It’s amazing, though not entirely surprising, that the bi-factional ruling party wants to set up another choice between Bush and Clinton. It’s as if they can’t even bother pretending that Americans live in a democracy anymore, never mind a republic. It increasingly reminds me of the arrogance of the EU establishment, which is now openly anti-democratic.
Cicero was right. It’s not dictatorship that follows democracy, but aristocracy.”
Vox Day
http://www.voxday.blogspot.com/2015/01/republicans-have-clever-new-plan-for.html
GOPES!
That Phillip K. Dick quote reminds me of a Zen proverb;
If you understand, things are just as they are…
If you do not understand, things are just as they are.