Some things never change...

This is a test of posting via email (something that TypePad supports but which I have never used before...).  Meanwhile, let me use the occasion to pass on this:

From the (US) Progressive Party platform of 1912:

Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people.

From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

The deliberate betrayal of its trust by the Republican party, the fatal incapacity of the Democratic party to deal with the new issues of the new time, have compelled the people to forge a new instrument of government through which to give effect to their will in laws and institutions.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29617

Thanks,
Brough

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