To the editor:

In 2000, my father, then 95 years old, supported Ralph Nader for President. I learned this when we were visiting at Christmas. A few months earlier, I had shared information about the Constitution Party person that was running for president. I asked him why he chose Nader and his simple reply to me was irrefutable. He said he remembered every election since Woodrow Wilson; that the Republicans and Democrats have had control of the White House and/or the Congress, his entire life and that the political outcome doesn’t seem to change. His conclusion was that either the two major parties don’t know what they’re doing, or they’re doing it on purpose. Many will disagree with my dad’s assessment, but how would you answer him?

Part of the ABC Evening News, on June 15, 2004, was : “In the House of Representatives, a Democrat had filed an ethics complaint against the majority leader, Republican Tom Delay of Texas.” . . . “Democrats and Republicans have had an informal agreement not to investigate each other, a truce that has lasted seven years.” How many decades, has this been hidden from the public? Is it going on now?

In former Georgetown professor Caroll Quigley’s book Tragedy and Hope, (1966) he writes, “Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so the the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election without leading to any profound or extreme shifts in policy.” (p. 1247; also p.324)

Is the information above, “The Rest of the Story?”

Leo Robert Lindquist

Balaton