Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout

This essay by recently retired Republican congressional staffer Mike Lofgren (h/t James Fallows) is impressive for its critique of both Democrats and Republicans. You can't judge it by its leads or headlines or by selective quotes. It's better than any of those would suggest. READ the whole thing. - GWC

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout: "Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!"

Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944)

Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election?"

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