Reply #50: I see you are a student of these matters. [View All]

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And a deeper one than I. You know I am no opponent on principle of
doing nothing, and in fact the parties do do something. But the point
is clear enough, anything one does will piss off someone, possibly
someone that one depends on. It is a difficult balancing act, but
it has been carried off for quite a long while now, so it is reasonable
to infer it is not left to chance.

I don't really feel that I have sorted out the motives and roles of the
various persons who enter and leave the public stage, for instance Mr.
Kerry. But is clear enough if one watches Mr. Bush and the decadent
clowns that surround him, or watches Mr. Gore presiding over the
Senate session where the black caucus attempted to force an examination
of what happened in Florida, and he gaveling them down for the absence of
one senator to support it, and yet not to come to the conclusion that
there is collusion between the parties, that Mr. Gore was content to
lose, that that was most likely his role, that the show is fake and
the outcome pre-determined, that the parties are not in fact enemies
but associates in the presentation of a shared drama, that the public
conduct of politics is theatre, and no more.