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To: Quigley

You know anything about this? :-)


3 posted on 02/14/2008 12:58:59 PM PST by Allegra (Posting without being logged on since 2001)
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To: Allegra

The only Quigley I know anything about is Matthew Quigley of “Quigley Down Under” movie fame. I was a Police Department sniper for many years and my son started calling me “Quigley” after he saw the movie with Tom Selleck.


7 posted on 02/14/2008 2:10:32 PM PST by Quigley
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To: Allegra; Quigley
You know anything about this? :-)

I read through this thread and was amazed that no one cited the following, extremely revealing passages from Quigley's book:

"The chief problem of American political life ... has been how to make the two Congressional parties more national and international. The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can "throw the rascals out" at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy." (6) .... [E]ither party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same policies". -- (6) Carroll Quigley, "Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in our Time", Macmillan, New York, 1966, pp. 1247-48

This is exactly the template which we are seeing implemented before our very eyes in the current election cycle...

Hope all is well with you... stay safe...!

105 posted on 02/16/2008 11:05:04 PM PST by tarheelswamprat
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