“A plague o’ both your houses!
They have made worms’ meat of me.” (Romeo and Juliet act 3, sc. 1)
Tips for Use. Apply to Democrats and Republicans, or to the Congress or the Senate, if you are unhappy with the current two party system. That there is no difference between “both your houses” and, by extension, between the two parties is well captured by Pat Buchanan’s definition, “two wings of the same bird of prey”. But things have even progressed further since the utterance of Buchanan’s quote. The destruction of Iraq, (1.3 million dead), Afghanistan, torture, “targeted assassinations”, drones everywhere anywhere, extreme secrecy (witness the vengeance against Bradley and the hatred towards Julian Assange). And, unbeknown to most, punishment for speaking truth to power. (Read this article http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31093.htm).
They are positively trying to “make worms’ meat” out of us. Makes you wonder what Alexis de Toqueville would write today in his book.
The apparent ease with which “both houses” pass more and more “anti-terrorist” laws brings to mind Orwell’s observation of the people of the “democratic” state in 1984, “They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening.” Hence the illustration of this blog, obtained from Europe and whose author I wish to thank.
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In the play. Mercutio’s reaction at being hurt by the Capulet Tybalt while fighting on behalf of Romeo and the Montagues.