Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, December 1, 2018

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My first presidential vote was for Walter Mondale.  My second was for George H.W. Bush.  I was taken in, a bit, by the ad campaign depicting Mike Dukakis as an ineffectual wimp.  I don't necessarily regret that vote, except for Clarence Thomas.

Four years later, Pat Buchanan challenged Bush from the Revanchist Right.  While he lost, it was a sign of the coming lurch into racism, ignorance and grievance that typifies the far right in America today. 

I would be very surprised of Trump was invited to the funeral.

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