>>I don't think I suggested anything was "good". I was suggesting that an oft-repeated adage is false.
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>>To be clear I am a free market capitalist with socially libertarian views. I regard both parties as contemptuous leeches, slowly sucking the life from this once great nation in the name of their own money and power. I regard professional politicians as the single greatest threat to this republic as they and they alone have the power to legislate it from existence and have been actively using that power to undermine our founding documents for decades. I believe the promise of a "more perfect union" has been actively betrayed by those elected to represent us in pursuit of an unachievable "ideal" to which humanity by its very nature cannot achieve.
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>And how about all people here who regard themselves Democrat or Republican? Are they also contemptuous leeches?

Jake spoke, imho, about politicians, not about ordinary citizens.