From Gore Vidal, American writer, an apt summation of politics:
It makes no difference who you vote for—the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people.
That percentage has shrunk to less than two.
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When did he write this? And when did it shrink to 2?
I got this out of a book of quotes that does not say when Mr. Vidal wrote this. However, I figure that whenever he wrote it, with the long-term underperformance of economy and the increasingly concentration of wealth, the percentage of people at the top of the manure pile is smaller now than whenever this quote was written.