In This World of Sin and Woe

Winston Churchill is both famous and infamous for many things, both said and done. I've always enjoyed a quote attributed to him, repeated here in its full context in case someone decides to pay me for by-the-word offerings. 

‘Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…’

We here in The Land of the Round DoorKnobs have a short-hand form of democracy for the most part. 

At almost all levels of government we have a two-party system; not so much because all of the really great and good ideas come from one or the other but because nuance is lost on most of us and the lesser of two weasels seem to be about the best intellectually we can do on Election Day.

I can reduce it even further with the help of a cartoon:

Sometimes, in thinking about Churchill, I suspect we don't spend enough time considering the effect his drinking had on his thinking.
-bill kenny