[LearsFool]

What has surprised me lately is the boldness with which governments are taking from us. They have encouraged the balkanization of this nation (if not acted as outright agents provocateurs themselves) and then offered to mediate our differences - for a fee.

Whether the issue is child support, or drugs, or welfare, or education, or illegal immigration, or what-have-you, they sow the seeds of discord and then present themselves as our saviors here to solve the problem - but always for a price. Just as in Dr. Seuss’s “The Sneetches”, they’re in the “break-it-fix-it” business - only they never quite manage to fix anything.

[RogerFGay]

I know I run the risk of seeming extreme, but I've been following this stuff in detail for many years. If the two parties are not literally dominated by criminal organizations, their members have been taught to act as such. Everything is a swindle and for the most part - designed to make political insiders wealthy. There is no other possible explanation that makes any sense when the details are reviewed.

I've wondered about the same thing as you are - not sure, but maybe for different reasons. I have wondered which it is, even was Kennedy shot to secure mafia control of the federal government. But the boldness and sloppiness of what I've seen lately suggests a more amateurish operation. The spin doctors and focus group marketing types just got too full of themselves, and the lawyers in charge - Congress etc. - don't have the sense they were born with.

Obviously nothing to stop things from getting out of control.