"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other."Oscar AmeringerWell, on this Midterm Election Day 2010, that pretty well sums things up, doesn’t it? Unless you prefer to add a famous quote from Henry Brook Adams for a fuller portrait of the rabid animal:"Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has
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Gandhi’s good question and JP Morgan’s Astrology
"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?" GandhiA while back I posted another of Gandhi’s quotes along with a smidgeon of details on his natal chart. Included is an excerpt from the 1922 book by Senator Richard Pettigrew Triumphant Plutocracy which