"I'll hug your elephant, and you can kiss my ass!"

The Bi-Partisan system in American Politics.
Is inherited from our British colonials, and is defined as a thoughtful balance between two essential principles of governing. The republic is the elected few who represent the many, being credited with having a superior wisdom or authority to be more cognizant of what must be done. The democracy is purely the will of the total majority. Mob rule vs. the aristocrats, which must be why I have seen carts rumbling into Wall Street to carry away the CEO's to the guillotines.
We must be protected from the Aristocrats, today's "rich," who have always taken everything because they have easier access; and we must be protected from the mob taking everything through their greater numbers and need. Who rules? The tiger or the carpenter ants? All of this is the reflection of the duality of the universe, which is always in balance. Some of the time the balance is equal at the same time and measure, which is the equation for peace. When the swing is extreme on either one side or the other, time will be the equalizer and the motion is violent. Creation requires destruction, but it does not require war. It takes just as much muscle and courage to swing a hammer, and quarry stone as it does to pull the triggers and bandage wounds. Who started these drug wars, anyway? Fights in the middle east over oil have been going on since the combustion engine in 1908. Both world wars were fought over oil. Oil has backed the currency of the world through the 20th century, and we are running on low. Hence the financial crisis. We could have started the move to a new collateral back on the Jupiter/Saturn conjunction of 2000, but the drinkers from the oil wells were too entrenched. Well, how much is left in the tank?
So the gift of the RNC and eight years of Rove, Cheney and Bush has been to destroy so many ethical principles that a revolt has manifested. Now, in equal proportion to the thievery and deceit will come the restoration and decency. The treasury was emptied, and we have to find the next gold.
Comes now the age of Ethics and it is an accelerated one, imploding on the former age of Power which began in the 1650's with the rise of manufactured power. According to the prophecy, it ended in 1999. We have until 2012 to participate in the Age of Ethics. With this election, we are joining, and must join with the whole world, to solidify the Ethics of our Time. Perhaps now we can empathize with Madame LaFarge, as she sat beside the guillotine, placidly knitting as the heads of the oblivious rolled away.