One party, with a few exceptions, really doesn’t care much about the poor.  The other party wants to convert the poor into a permanent constituency of hopelessly dependent and utterly demoralized nonproductive consumers who vote for the hand that feeds them.  Both parties want to feel good about it.

Some errors are terribly hard to discover and correct during one’s own lifetime, just because one is so invested in them.  Change cannot come until the next generation.  The natural consequences of these errors are the feedback loop.

“‘In a little square garden of yellow roses, beside the sea,’ said Auberon Quin, "there was a Nonconformist minister who had never been to Wimbledon.  His family did not understand his sorrow or the strange look in his eyes.  But one day they repented their neglect, for they heard that a body had been found on the shore, battered, but wearing patent leat

Unitarian minister Robert Fulghum wrote in his book From Beginning to End that although “we wrestled with [the idea of Holy Communion] in the church I served for many years,” still, “my congregation was open to experiencing some similar act of community in a religious setting."