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Before we get to the meat of this coconut — God, I love that phrase — let’s take a quick look at the best dumb quote of the weekend. “[This country has been taken over by banks and corporations.] The federal reserve isn’t even American. It’s private!” Let me say that I am not at all a hyper-capitalist. I am a very modest capitalist, and I do believe that the government has and should have roles within economics and the general public sphere. I just thought that line was ridiculous. I heard it on Real-Time with Bill Maher, uttered by Esai Morales.

Maher said something very insightful on his latest show to make up for his stupid comments a few weeks ago: slightly paraphrased, he said, “if the Democratic Paty can’t survive voting it is not very democratic” and he went on to ridicule those Democrats who suggest that they should stop fighting because they’ve got scratches. I agree wholeheartedly. I would also add my agreement to Jon Corzine’s latest article on the illigitimacy the Democratic primary will take on if Michigan and Florida are not counted. But democracies, and genuine democratic (and republican, each lowercase) candidates survive democracy and accept it.

This isn’t like what’s going on in Zimbabwe, where the government is trying to steal an election with a recount of votes that haven’t even been made public yet.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 7th, 2008 at 7:36 am and is filed under Outside Retort (Current Affairs).