Most of the time, people speak in cliches and phrases which have no meaning other then it seems reasonable.

Thank-you E.J.

Raymond Lavine
Gig Harbor, Washington

And yes Nixon had a broader civil rights platform than Johnson. Johnson fought his own party’s prejudice to open the doors, and achieved more than Truman, Eisenhower, or Kennedy did before him. Admirably, Nixon built on those gains rather than retreating from them.

Eisenhower put the first troops into Indochina, Nixon brought the last troops out. The GOP changes too.

Another stone that can be thrown against both parties is the Label of Fascism.

It is a is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. One party more than the other adheres to the concept that government should be designed to initiate a revolution from above and to organize the nation upon fascist principles. The other seems inclined more towards the idea that the state should purge forces, ideas, people, and systems deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration. Both of the major political parties have some tendency towards these fascist goals. Look up fascism. Look at the main parties. Think on what that means to you. Both have different points of emphasis, but both seek to limit your freedom by regulations designed to explicitly define, in finer and finer detail, exactly what you can and cannot do. Both are self justifying and self perpetuating. Take off the blinders. They may not be limiting anything you care about today, but there is no sense in thinking that you can’t be their target for the future. Politicians are out for power and control. Statesmen are out for the good of the people. Sad to say it, but we put politicians rather than statesmen in power, and we reap what we sow. We need to wake up and scrutinize everyone in power. The best revolution is the peaceful one, but where the peaceful revolution (that our forefathers tried to give us a way to accomplish) fails, take heed. Sooner or later the revolution will come! And that is regardless of whether or not you try to regulate weapons to the point that politicians don’t have to worry about violent revolution. IEDs have been around since before our current time. A hot pot of coffee in a glass container can be a three strike weapon! Fascism will be opposed, and the state will not be able to completely control us forever!