Thursday, June 4, 2015

Viva la Fragmentation!

ON JUNE 15 JEB BUSH will evidently declare his pursuit of the American Presidency, and teh excitment will begin in earnest. The more the merrier. Share the power, and power to the people, am I right? We might well end up with a whole boatload of candidates on both the republican and the democratic side, and we can only hope that most of them stay in the race a long time, for the sake of sheer entertainement, if nothing else. Fragmentation, its the only way to go. Our founding mothers and fathers, we all know, despised political parties, and didn't want them to even get started in America. But started they got, and started they stayed. Now we have this horrible two party-same party system, in which the two choices are nothing but slight variations of each other; parties of property, parties which favor the wealthy at all costs, because the wealthy own and control them, because the wealthy pay the bills. So maybe we will see so many presidential candidates soon that it wills seem as if there are no political parties, but only a mass of humanity, each individual with a butthole, an opinion, and a vision for the future. Or, perhaps, a large number of political parties, representing all elements of society, such as they tend to have in European countries. Say,a Tea party to the right of the republicans, and a social labor party to the left of the democrats. Now that would be REAL varitey, real choice! A little fragmentation wouldn't hurt within the religious community either. A huge human family of over seven billion different religions!

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