picunurse:
I grew up in a household where Republican was a dirty word. So I became an independent thinker. I intrinsically knew that one side couldn’t possibly be 100% right all the time.
It worked until I reached voting age. That was right about the time we stopped voting for the best choice.
We lost our innocence with Watergate. We discovered there were no “best” choices, only least worse.
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power, corrupts absolutely.”
Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton-1834-1902)
You will be shocked-everything that Goldwater predicted (as a result of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” has come through in spades! We could use another Goldwater today!