[Magdalen] Trump to back out?

[Lynn Ronkainen]

... yeah. The famous moniker "The party of Lincoln" never seems to go on to 
flesh out that it was a rogue 3rd party itself at the time...  Lack of 
history and context in our world today boggles the mind, at least mine.

Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2016 12:03 PM
To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Trump to back out?

> You're right. I was thinking after all the dust clears, will there
> still be the Republican Party, or will it split into its major
> factions (probably two)?
>
> We've had other parties before; it seems like the two major ones are
> regarded as set in stone forever now. Need that be so?
>
> Or maybe our USA system is best served with just two viable parties
> and then others that are merely voices (perhaps electing occasional
> local officials). Parliamentary democracies are set up better to
> handle an array of parties, with close attention to the parties'
> relative strength in terms of number of seats won, and the mechanism
> for forming coalition governments, etc.
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:32 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com> 
> wrote:
>> Scott's point was about ultimate eventualities, not necessarily these 
>> next specific few months.
>>
>> (Correct me, Scott, if I'm wrong.)
>
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>
>
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA