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From: Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
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On Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:53:27 -0800, john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
wrote:

>On Thu, 7 Nov 2024 23:43:52 +0100, Jeroen Belleman
><jeroen@nospam.please> wrote:
>
>>On 11/7/24 16:18, Ralph Mowery wrote:
>>> In article <sa0oij1ka6s1pfpghsar1hse7c2s7d7s54@4ax.com>, jl@glen--
>>> canyon.com says...
>>>>
>>>> There are lots of people here, and in other countries, who think that
>>>> we have too much government. Killing the squirrel was an example.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> 
>>> Of all the major crime going on in the city they go after one pet
>>> squirrel.  Seems about right for the mentaliy of this country.  The
>>> squirrel was easy to find.  Trapped in just a few rooms.  Maybe they
>>> should give the man harboring the squirrel a few years in prison for
>>> doing something so serious of a crime.Don't worry about the thousands of
>>> illeagal people in the city.
>>
>>
>>That was the idea. There are plenty of things wrong in US society,
>>but the authorities chose to after an easy target and politicians
>>sought to use it to their advantage. Both parties deserve our scorn.
>>
>>Jeroen Belleman
>
>Political parties should have no official existance in the workings of
>elections or in government.
>
>The framers of our constitution debated that, and got it wrong.

They looked at the fractious politics of European parliamentary
systems, which were largely self-crippling, and decided to set things
up so there would be only a few parties, usually two major plus some
pipsqueaks.  It worked.

Joe