7th May 2021, 1:31 PM
I'm hearing the rhetoric "We need a strong republican party" a lot lately. Don't believe it. Yes, we DO need more than one party. That competing party doesn't have to be the republicans. We don't need any specific party, we just need one that represents our interests. That's it. The name or the "prestige" of a party is irrelevent. Let the republican party die. Another can and should take it's place.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)