A Quote

With the possible exception of Nixon, Hubert Humphery is the purest and most disgusting example of a Political Animal in American politics today. He has been going at it hammer and tong twenty-five hours a day since the end of World War II--just like Richard Nixon, who launched his own career as a Red-baiting California congressman about the same time Hubert began making headlines as the Red-baiting Mayor of Minneapolis. They are both career anti-Comunists: Nixon's gig was financed from the start by Big Business, and Humphery's by Big Labor...and what both of them stand for today is the de facto triumph of a One Party System in American politics.

Hunter S Thompson, '72

As true today as it was then. The trend has been a consolidation of power under the manufactured polarization produced by the media. Simply put, we need the Democrats who are serious about fixing things to break off and start a new party...but not like Lincoln, where the new party wound-up replacing the old, we need a multi-party system. Democracy is not supposed to be easy, it's not supposed to be stable, it's never supposed to be business as usual.

and while I'm on the point of continued trends, Harvey Wasserman has published another brilliant article.