THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Hey Karl, what do you think about the banks, where the People keep their money, and about bankers, the ones who those People trust with their money: do you think banks and bankers should be Regulated by the Law, in the interest of protecting the People's money from being lost or stolen by those banks and bankers?"
KARL MARX: "Only in so far as that money has actually been lost or stolen, and therefore is at risk to be lost or stolen again (because history often repeats itself), only under those circumstances should the banks and the bankers be Regulated by Law... and even then, only in proportion to the severity of the problem, as the more severe the losses and theft of the People's money from the banks, the more severe should the Regulations be to prevent such losses and thefts from happening again."
TJ: "Makes sense to me. Is that what they call 'Marxism'?"
KM: "I'd be surprised! Are they really attaching my name to the good sense concept of Regulating the banks against the loss or theft of the People's money in those banks?"
TJ: "Apparently so."
KM: "Then good, great even! Whew, I've been worrying now for more than a century, worrying from the grave, that I'd only be remembered as the political theorist who advocated renouncing family and even renouncing God, in the name of and in the pursuit of, the common good... that always bothered me, even in life did I hesitate a little bit in renouncing those things... and from the grave, my doubts have only grown greater, especially at how I sort of renounced my own family, and all of my many children, while they and I lived... I continue to feel bad about that... but if they're invoking my name instead, in a good sense effort to Regulate America's robbed financial system, then good and great, I'd rather it was that way than the other!"
TJ: "I hear you Karl, my dead friend. It's nice to be remembered for good things... as for me, you know when they did to remember me? They put my picture on the two dollar bill! And while that really isn't so bad, you know what they did next? They invented a little phrase, to refer to something as being as 'queer as a two dollar bill'! I always hated that! If it weren't for the fact that I'm long dead, I'd sue somebody for that, sue them for a million dollars! And I'd win too! And you know what I'd do with the million dollars?"
KM: "What?"
TJ: "I'd put the money in a well Regulated bank, that's what!"
Let's see here: the Democratic Party is the one that's support is notably expanding, and the Republican Party is the one that's famously shrinking, and Fox News, the unofficial media arm of the RNC, claims that the Democrats are moving to a more marginalized historical figure?
The fact is that the Democratic Party is growing because they're getting more support from the center, not from the farthest left. After all, it's Arlen Specter who has become a Democrat, not Bernie Sanders.
Wasn't it the Republican supporting New York Daily Tribune that ran Marx's articles in the US?
I'm not trying to make a point apart from that times change.
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THOMAS JEFFERSON: "Hey Karl, what do you think about the banks, where the People keep their money, and about bankers, the ones who those People trust with their money: do you think banks and bankers should be Regulated by the Law, in the interest of protecting the People's money from being lost or stolen by those banks and bankers?"
KARL MARX: "Only in so far as that money has actually been lost or stolen, and therefore is at risk to be lost or stolen again (because history often repeats itself), only under those circumstances should the banks and the bankers be Regulated by Law... and even then, only in proportion to the severity of the problem, as the more severe the losses and theft of the People's money from the banks, the more severe should the Regulations be to prevent such losses and thefts from happening again."
TJ: "Makes sense to me. Is that what they call 'Marxism'?"
KM: "I'd be surprised! Are they really attaching my name to the good sense concept of Regulating the banks against the loss or theft of the People's money in those banks?"
TJ: "Apparently so."
KM: "Then good, great even! Whew, I've been worrying now for more than a century, worrying from the grave, that I'd only be remembered as the political theorist who advocated renouncing family and even renouncing God, in the name of and in the pursuit of, the common good... that always bothered me, even in life did I hesitate a little bit in renouncing those things... and from the grave, my doubts have only grown greater, especially at how I sort of renounced my own family, and all of my many children, while they and I lived... I continue to feel bad about that... but if they're invoking my name instead, in a good sense effort to Regulate America's robbed financial system, then good and great, I'd rather it was that way than the other!"
TJ: "I hear you Karl, my dead friend. It's nice to be remembered for good things... as for me, you know when they did to remember me? They put my picture on the two dollar bill! And while that really isn't so bad, you know what they did next? They invented a little phrase, to refer to something as being as 'queer as a two dollar bill'! I always hated that! If it weren't for the fact that I'm long dead, I'd sue somebody for that, sue them for a million dollars! And I'd win too! And you know what I'd do with the million dollars?"
KM: "What?"
TJ: "I'd put the money in a well Regulated bank, that's what!"
KM: "Makes sense to me."
The fact is that the Democratic Party is growing because they're getting more support from the center, not from the farthest left. After all, it's Arlen Specter who has become a Democrat, not Bernie Sanders.
I'm not trying to make a point apart from that times change.