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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2011-12-11

[One of these made me think of the other ...]

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2011-11-30:

"There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently - and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties." -- Gore Vidal, from Matters of Fact and of Fiction.

(submitted to the mailing list by Mike Krawchuk)


"It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong." -- Molly Ivins (via Jone Johnson Lewis' collection of quotations on about.com)

[I think Vidal has a good (important) point, but I'm going to ultimately have to side with Ivins.]

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 07:45pm on 2011-12-19
Yeah. I kind of have to go with the party who, as much as I often disagree with its policies, isn't actively campaigning for and on a platform of my and many others' non-personhood.

The next time I hear someone who votes Republican talking about how they vote their wallet, I should remember to ask them how much money they think will be saved by throwing gay and lesbian servicemembers out of the military, as Rich Santorum has promised to do.

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