Now I know that many of you are sincerely, gravely, brow-furrowingly worried about which future monarch gets to appoint which future Justice. You don't really know, and you won't really be asked, who will fill the next Supreme Court seat. The point, though, is that it is servile to wait upon their pleasure and caprice in this way. It has its bets covered by ownership of the casino. It has, as far as is possible, everything under control and all contingencies provided for.
Casinos are places where, oddly enough, poor people go to transfer their money to rich people.
But, just as the casino owner would have to work or starve without the endless gullibility of the punter, the whole two-party machine would stall if people stopped playing the existing odds. If I was shyly asked when people should dare allow themselves this frightening liberty, I'd say the time was 'round about now. Reasonable Questions I voted for Nader in 1996. That troubles me, and it troubles me that the Greens and Naderites and Nader himself don't seem to think it should. Look at Earl Warren, a conservative governor who was placed on the bench by Eisenhower.