Undead, alive
Parkinson's most important Law deals with Organizational Zombies. An organization or agency that achieves its stated goal NEVER DIES. Instead, it continues to grow, finding new ways to justify its budget. Occasionally those new ways are worthy purposes; usually they're purely destructive.

Two opposite examples in today's news.

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(1) The Libertarian Party existed to Legalize Pot. Now that Pot is effectively Legal in most states, LP has no purpose. It doesn't seem to realize that it's dead. Its leaders continue arguing about the Masoretic Text Of Our Most Noble Prophets Von Rothbard and Von Bastiat and Von Mises. Should the em-dash in Verse 354.8 of Chapter XXLVII of Book The Third in The Holy Gospel Of Von Rothbard be a semicolon? NO, YOU IDIOT! EVERYONE KNOWS IT SHOULD BE A DOUBLE HYPHEN!!!!!

More seriously, LP is simply JPMorgan in a tie-dyed T-shirt. LP agrees with JP that Infinite Immigration and Infinite Free Trade and Infinite Outsourcing are ABSOLUTE NECESSITIES. LP agrees with JP that Banks Shall Never Be Regulated. LP agrees with JP that Robots Must Eliminate Humans (except for the Chosen, of course). LP agrees with JP that Trans Rights must overrule and OBLITERATE primitive Religions in all circumstances. Slaughter the poor, enrich the Chosen.

We already have two Morgan parties. Hillary is pure Morgan. It's possible that Trump may pull the R side slightly away from the Morgan line, but that remains to be seen. We don't need another Morgan party, even if it smells funny.

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(2) Bernie's followers have a clear understanding of Parkinson. They know Hillary wins. They are already ramping the movement's energy into more productive seeking of low-level offices. Precinct committees, city councils. Realistic and smart! That's where you build a party.

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I don't see a similar realism among Trump fans. At this point I suppose confidence is a good thing. Punch through the opponent, not to the opponent, and all that. But facts are hard to punch. The sun rises, the sun sets, Hillary wins. Trump fans are hugely energetic. Where will all that energy go?


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Semi-relevant: It's too bad the LP chose Gary Johnson. He's a smooth predictable cautious soulless zombie, always running on autopilot. Just like Hillary. McAfee would have been infinitely more interesting, and a debate between Trump and McAfee could have been the highlight of this election. McAfee shares Trump's give-no-fuck nature. Always speaks the truth as he sees it.
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