Club Dutt

Whenever dissatisfied with conditions, they (the overwhelming majority of the American people) have found ready to hand an admirable safety valve: "The Party not in power." National popular malaise has invariably abated as the U.S. electorate (and not only there!) has oscillated pendulum-like between the two heads of a single major political party. Developed by an astute ruling class which divides the spoils of office at periodic intervals, and emerging under a number of historically generic names, this political vehicle in the U.S. today is called by its owners alternately "Democratic" and "Republican".

November 1966 was a case in point: despite rising inflation, growing casualties in the Vietnam war, and innumerable annoying consequences of the latter, a sizeable number of "Democratic" officials were merely replaced by "Republicans": the same foreign policies will thereby continue.