P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Political Systems
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election
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Political systems must love poverty-they produce so much of it. Poor people make easier targets for a demagogue. No Mao or even Jiang Zemin is likely to arise on the New York Stock Exchange floor. And politicians in democracies benefit from destitution, too. The US has had a broad range of poverty programs for 30 years. Those programs have failed. Millions of people are still poor. And those people vote for politicians who favor keeping the poverty programs in place. There's a conspiracy theory in there somewhere.
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The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.
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