Erica Jong Says ..,.
"The Republican Party stands for nothing today but looting the national treasury for the rich."
Do listen to Erica Jong, inventor of the 'zipless f___' in her revolutionary book Fear of Flying, in the wayward but oh-so-liberating '60s. Later, however, in her blog on Huffington Post she expresses her fear that the Democrats may "shoot themselves in the foot."
Before the fear, however, comes these insights: "If anyone in Washington read history, they'd understand that any empire that spends more in war than on its people eventually goes down in flames. The Persians, Greeks and Romans proved it--see Herodotus--and the British, French, Belgians, Dutch and Germans proved it all over again in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But does anyone care?
Read it all: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/why-am-i-so-afraid_b_92876.html
Do listen to Erica Jong, inventor of the 'zipless f___' in her revolutionary book Fear of Flying, in the wayward but oh-so-liberating '60s. Later, however, in her blog on Huffington Post she expresses her fear that the Democrats may "shoot themselves in the foot."
Before the fear, however, comes these insights: "If anyone in Washington read history, they'd understand that any empire that spends more in war than on its people eventually goes down in flames. The Persians, Greeks and Romans proved it--see Herodotus--and the British, French, Belgians, Dutch and Germans proved it all over again in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But does anyone care?
Apparently not. It's a rule of history that when an empire gorges on guns and forgets butter, that empire winds up on the scrap heap of history.
Dubya could have learned this at Yale had he not been drunk or stoned all the time and figuring out ways to avoid going to 'Nam."
After a lot of good points Erica concludes, "So let's stop talking about race and gender and let the beaver (Hillary) and the stallion (Barack) both serve our country--in their own inimitable ways."Read it all: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/why-am-i-so-afraid_b_92876.html
Positively,
Carolan
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