In the silver and copper mining towns of the American Southwest in the 1880s, gambling was legal. All the saloons had games, everyone knew this, and so it was. The honesty of the games varied, but the game that was usually the most crooked was one known as “Faro”. Playing this game was known as “bucking the tiger”. And many people lost wads of cash on rigged faro games.
Eventually, gambling was made illegal across the Southwest in order to demonstrate to people that the government has the sole authority to run rigged games. But what happened to all these guys running faro games? At last, I think I can answer that question: They obviously went into politics. And the voters all now “buck the tiger” in these rigged elections where the house wins every time.
12:18 pm on July 12, 2017
