OS@172:

Did you read those talking points off the palm of your hand?

Part of the “third to half” of this site that strikes a false note with me is the too pat categorizing that simplifies the human matrix into patterns of thought and behavior far beyond what the miscible boundaries of reality would dictate.

Ask yourself how many of the people in this country who support Social Security and Medicare consider themselves Marxists marching in lock step with the great collectivists of the last century – Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, Pol Pot? This country is a soft-marxist state, like it nor not, for better or worse. Barring radical revolution, the ‘third way’ compromise will be with us forever – or at least a very long time. And I think that’s fine because it sort of works in this country.

The immediate prelude to some form of internal political rehabilitation requires changing of the guard – the current crop is corrupt – more corrupt than usual. Those who prefer to view the process through an ideological prism are free to do so, but incongruity controls any perspective that claims to “understand the nature of mankind” while failing to acknowledge the footprint that his nature leaves on institutions.