March 23, 2025

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best.

Will Rogers (1879-1935), American humorist, Illiterate Digest (1924), Jay p.307

How much time do you spend appreciating the many assumptions about government your party shares with all the other parties? What assumption don’t you share?

This is why places change on a regular basis. Once Mrs. Smith goes to Washington, she’s a politician and any confidence anyone ever placed in her is quickly washed away by the near universal contempt to which all politicians are subject. Except, of course, in the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), with James Stewart.