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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (276622)8/17/2015 6:51:04 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 542551
 
Nice column by Dionne. As you know, his nomination would be mine as well, as I've used those two lines a number of times on this thread.

W.B. Yeats’ “ The Second Coming,” written in 1919, is my nominee for the most cited poem in political commentary. The line invoked most — “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” — is irresistible. It’s always tempting to assume that the side we oppose brings vast reservoirs of demonic energy to bear against our own sad and bedraggled allies. The other oft-quoted verse comes four lines earlier, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” This sentiment comes back again and again, at times of stress when Establishments seem to be tottering and when moderate and conventional politicians find themselves outshouted and outmaneuvered.

First we get Reagan the B-movie actor, and now we get Trump the reality show actor. What a mess we will have if he actually wins the election. "They have to go. We will work with them, but they have to go." As if the millions of businesses and farms that employ these people (many of them republicans, I would guess) are going to be happy about that, lol. But in one sense, he (and Sanders) is surely right. They do lower the overall pay scale and raise the unemployment rate. But Alabama farmers got a taste of what it would be like a few years ago when their legislature tried to clamp down on illegal immigrants. They suddenly had a labor shortage and couldn't get their crops harvested. There will be a lot of unintended consequences if Trump can actually achieve his goal....
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