"Throw The Rascals Out"

[sevin]

Now is a good time to post this quote to Facebook, Twitter or any other social site or forum you're a member of.

"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 the 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 extreme shifts in policy."

- Carrol Quigley, Tragedy and Hope

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[ronpaulfollower999]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g1TaYYGv8Q

[sevin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g1TaYYGv8Q

Yes, very relevant clip! Ron Paul talks about how Bill Clinton recognized Carrol Quigley as being very important to him philosophically.

[heavenlyboy34]

You people are heretics and should be banished from the playground immediately! ;)

[rprprs]

I need to be honest here and, unfortunately, perhaps sound a little naive in the process.
I don't fully comprehend this quote.
While I fully understand the desire to 'throw the rascals out', it's the second part that confuses me.
I mean, given the country's current trajectory, don't we want to see a 'profound' shift in policy?

Enlighten me.

Edit: OK, nevermind, I got it now. It's an explantion of how things work, not how they should work. I had lost or missed the context in which we would use that quote.

[Anti Federalist]

Carroll Quigley on Elections

Posted by David Kramer on November 6, 2012 01:38 AM

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/125407.html

I was at that Democratic Convention in Madison Square Garden on July 16, 1992 when Clinton mentioned his teacher Carroll Quigley in his acceptance speech for the Presidential Nomination of the Democratic Party. At the time, I was still a far-left liberal. I had been reading about this One World Government conspiracy for almost 5 years (I had first heard about it from a couple of Birchers who I had met in California), yet I still didn't believe it.

I thought it was some far-right paranoid fantasy.

But when Bill Clinton said "Carroll Quigley," it was one of those rare life-changing moments that many of us experience: I knew that everything those "paranoid" Birchers had told me was true. I knew that the Democratic Party was controlled by the same financial interests that controlled the Republican Party. I knew that I couldn't vote for Clinton (and I certainly wasn't going to vote for his Republican opponent George H.W. "Skull & Bonesman" Bush). Fortunately, a few weeks later I happened to chance upon hearing on C-SPAN the Libertarian Party Presidential nominee Andre Marrou speaking at a Libertarian fundraising dinner. The rest, as they say, is history.

If you don't want to plow through all of Carroll Quiqley's 1,300+ page tome Tragedy and Hope, here is the infamous Chapter 65 from that book in which Quigley reveals in detail the history of the plans for a One World Government