Allen Weber’s Take On The World

Two True Believers

Only Two Left Who Walk Their Talk

After seeing the results of the primary and Edwards and Romney dropping out, there are still Four to pick from. Two who will say and do anything, and two who are True Believers who walk their talk.

Now that I said that, they will probably come back and bite me.

Anywhoo… I see Obama and Ron Paul as the two true believers to their way. They will stand or fall on their principles. They do not seem to be playing one song for one audience and another song for a different audience in hopes of “You can fool some of the people some of the time, and you can fool ALL the American people All the time!”

I have been reading Public Opinion by Lippman. He makes a very interesting observation. A bunch of them really, but this from 1921.

Landslides can turn one machine out and put another in; revolutions sometimes abolish a particular machine altogether. The democratic revolution set up two alternating machines, each of which in the course of a few years reaps the advantage from the mistakes of the other. But nowhere does the machine disappear. Nowhere is the idyllic theory of democracy realized. Certainly not in trades unions, nor in socialist parties, nor in communist governments. There is an inner circle, surrounded by concentric circles which fade out gradually into the disinterested or uninterested rank and file.

Democrats have never come to terms with this commonplace of group life. They have invariably regarded it as perverse. For there are two visions of democracy: one presupposes the self-sufficient individual; the other an Oversoul regulating everything.

1921 — Wow! Since before 1921! That’s amazing.

If you look at the “Mainstream” of both parties, they are the same. Oh sure one defines itself as one party and the other defines itself as a different party. But they both want to regulate everything, every aspect of your life and thought.

Same person… different suit.

Something to think about when you go in to vote.

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