Sep 16 2008
This Is Why Things Don’t Change In Washington
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, on, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.
– from historian Carroll Quigley, author of Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (and Bill Clinton’s mentor)
Related and Recommended Reading:
Left vs. Right: The Illusion of Opposites by G. Edward Griffin
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