Awesome rant I found:

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But it is possible to use the tools of government to throw sand in the gears: to fuck up things so badly that nothing gets done; to turn Americans against one another, against their neighbors, against their own grandparents; to cripple government, cripple the economy and millions of lives, for private and political advantage.

There is no question about any of this. Nor is there any question about why Congress does it. It's Nixon's Southern strategy: Carve up the country into little groups and get them to hate one another, and promise to protect Your Guys from the people you encourage them to hate.

Fear is a great motivator - the greatest motivator of all other than sex. And fear, as the Buddha said, comes from ignorance.

I'm speaking now as a man who loves to eat. Eating is more important than politics.

If politicians devoted themselves to seeing that people could eat when they're hungry, then we would not be having this discussion, and our nation would not have all the problems we do.

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I was 14 in 1965. Pizza was an exotic food then, and the only Chinese food you could get was execrable. Indian food? Thai? Vietnamese? Forget it.

Food is most important of all. And one thing Washington, D.C. has got in abundance is great food. Thai food, Indian, Chinese, Salvadoran ... vide supra.

My brother took me out for dim sum on Sunday. You want world peace? Take the Israelis and Palestinians out for dim sum and tell them they can never have it again unless they get serious.


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