The modern GOP has perfected this cyclical deficit outrage ritual. Republicans run up the tab when they control the White House, then scream about deficits when Democrats win - insisting that 'serious reform' means cutting only Democratic budget priorities.
We will spend and spend, and tax and tax, and elect and elect.
We will have a government where liberals will stay in power until they get radical and conservatives will have the power until they get reactionary.
We’re a cyclical country. 8 years one party – 8 years another party.
Liberty begets anarchy, anarchy leads to despotism, and despotism brings about liberty once again. Millions of human beings have perished without being able to make any of these systems triumph.
My opponents can't get elected unless things get worse. And things aren't going to get worse unless they get elected.
Election campaigns seem to siphon away political anger and even basic political intelligence into this great vaudeville, after which we all end up in exactly the same place.
Of one thing I am certain: we are foolish if we think we will achieve change by sending the same crowd of people back to run our government again and again.
