[OM] Re: OT Run, Fred, run!

[Andrew Fildes]

That's better but very murkin. It also presupposes radical  
conservatism (a tad oxymoronic but it happens) rather than a simple  
reactionary process.
I don't think that you guys necessarily get worse government because  
you allow big business to buy the loyalty of candidates by sponsoring  
ludicrously expensive campaigns - but it certainly looks worse and  
seems to cripple the genuinely ethical candidates.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



On 28/03/2007, at 9:58 AM, Joel Wilcox wrote:

> The cycles I see in modern government are active liberalism achieving
> a few cherished victories and then degenerating into rickety
> self-promotion, which is then summarily swept away by the cleansing
> fire of a conservatism which simply burns itself out when it has
> removed the least entrenched constructs of liberalism.  Since its job
> is to defeat public activism, other than warfare (which allows it to
> stoke up the cleansing fires and take it international) liberalism
> eventually moves back into the void conservatism creates.
>
> But this is simplistic (though worth every penny you paid for it).  In
> the end, my favorite bit of advice came from a seasoned politico who
> used to say, "Well, so Jesus Christ isn't running this year.  Get over
> it."



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