Are You Not Entertained?

“Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.”
-Robert Anton Wilson

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women, join the unqualified men in running our government.
~Cissy Farenthold

What experience and history teach is this that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
~Hegel

What does democratic mean when political parties don't have different ideological beliefs and different visions of the nature of the system and where the promised land lies -so that they can debate alternative roads to the future?

Elections become popularity polls swirling around trivial issues and dependent upon who looks best on television. Elections come to be seen as replacement of one set of crooks with another set of crooks...Real democracy demands real ideological alternatives at election time or it becomes an exercise in trivialism... To work, democracy needs a vision of utopia-a route to a better society-a vision of what it is that transforms narrow sectarian self-interest.
Lester C. Thurow