John Birch Society agrees with me, too

ReasonableCitizen is pleased to see that former strong Republican supporters like the John Birch Society agree that there is no difference between the Republican Party and the Democrat Party. Although JBS and I have many differences in policy and philosophy, JBS says it well when they say:

When it comes to exercising fiduciary responsibility for our economy, therefore, it is obvious that the difference between having a Republican or Democrat in the White House is largely an illusion. Republicans may pretend to cut spending by miniscule amounts, whereupon Democrats howl that the GOP is gouging important social problems while giving “tax breaks to the rich,” but it is largely a theatrical performance put on for the benefit of each party’s constituency.
In an interview with The New American magazine for September 26, 1988, Congressman Ron Paul, in answer to a question about why he was running for President on the Libertarian Party ticket, replied:
“The American people ought to have a choice. They have no choice whatsoever between [George H.W.] Bush and [Mike] Dukakis. Although their speeches are a little different, their programs and their policies and their philosophies are very much the same.”

This has been true for many decades. Republicans have been elected to balance the budget and cut back on the size of the government, but nothing happens. Democrats are supposed to be good at keeping us out of war and protecting civil liberties, but they don’t do a very good job at that. I tried working through the Republican Party for a good many years offering a change in direction, but after seven years of the Reagan Administration I concluded that the Republicans would never reduce the size of government.

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Dr. Quigley described the choice given to voters by the two major political parties in his monumental work Tragedy and Hope (1966):

“[T]he 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 extensive shifts in policy…. But either party in office becomes in time corrupt, tired, unenterprising, and vigorless. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will have none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.”

In addition to the above revelation, Tragedy and Hope was the first major exposé of the powerful, elitist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) to be written by a CFR member. Members of the CFR have held key positions in virtually every presidential administration for the past 60 years. The vast majority of secretaries of state, from Dean Acheson in the Truman Administration to Condoleezza Rice in the Bush administration, have been CFR members.

 Well, it is good to know that the Right and the Left and the Independents agree with me: Two Partys, One Goal, a socialized empire.

Please Vote Responsibly in 2008 and Save America.