Saturday, October 11, 2008

Vietnamese Nail People and Federalist #10 and 51

My wife gets her nails done at a Vietnamese nail salon in our neighborhood. When she was last in the guy who did her manicure and nail polish was talking politics. He explained that this country was a great place because of the diversity of opinions and that one group did not control the system (as they had before he left Vietnam).

According to my wife this guy is a citizen - and he seems to understand the basis for our political system (which Madison argued in Federalist #10 and 51) better than a lot of his native born fellow citizens.

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