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Before This Learning Experience, I Had Assumed That With Regard To Programs That Sought To Help People Out Of Poverty, The Political World Was Essentially Divided Into Two Camps: Conservatives Who Opposed These For A Variety Of Reasons, And Liberals Who Supported Them.

It Is, Of Course, Further Indication That A Fundamentalist Right Has Really Taken Over Much Of The Republican Party, People Might Cite George Bush As Proof That You Can Be Totally Impervious To The Effects Of Harvard And Yale Education.

Going Before An Audience Of People Who Expect You To Be Funny Is Tough. Going Before An Audience That Expect You To Be Boring, And Then Being A Little Funny, Is Much Easier. I Prefer Easier.

There Is A Correlation Between People Who Attack Same-sex Marriage And Have Difficulty Maintaining Their Own.

Excessive Partisanship Is The Problem. There Has Never Been A Democracy In The History Of The World In A Polity Of Any Size Where You Didn't Have Political Parties. Even Sometimes Over The Objections Of The People Who Started It.