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    Some food for thought on election Eve.

    This is a little bit long, but I found it intellectually insightful.

    https://victorhanson.com/from-clinge...-vilification/
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    With minimal editing, this article could fit the modern Republican party just as well. I say we should outlaw political partys, caucuses and PACS. Make every candidate run on his own merit.
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    I say we should outlaw political partys, caucuses and PACS. Make every candidate run on his own merit.
    Now we're getting somewhere in the discussion...Politicians have been allowed to infiltrate political parties without repercussion or punishment, and are the bane of good government...Statesmen are who are needed in government, not politicians......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    With minimal editing, this article could fit the modern Republican party just as well.
    Very minimal editing.. (be afraid of immigrants.. someone intentionally caused inflation (it’s a world problem))

    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    I say we should outlaw political partys, caucuses and PACS. Make every candidate run on his own merit.c
    Sounds good until you have a self funded candidate.. Trone (owns Total beverage) in the next congressional district (in Maryland) just steamrolled the competition for a house seat.. (but he couldn’t do it in the Senate primary, Alsobrooks won) ..

    And we have Younkin as governor who can also self fund.. (but not govern)..

    We do need a change in how we elect our leaders.. I just don’t have an answer..

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    I'm sorry to say that I found that just one more politically biased essay with a purpose.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Grubb View Post
    I'm sorry to say that I found that just one more politically biased essay with a purpose.
    Absolutely it was partisan. That was the intention. No different from some of the emails you post from your "friend" as in the female scholar whose essays you post here from time to time.
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    I simply missed the connection to intellect, the author did little to demonstrate aceptional intelligence.
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
    “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis

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    He is brilliant
    Apparently you don't know anything about him. Just because someone you disagree with does not make them any less intelligent.
    OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

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