Re: are there really 2?
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never posted here before, but this will be fun. How does the community here feel about the party system in America? To me, it seems more like there is really only one party, half believe abortion should be legal and the other half believe gay's shouldn't get married.
I learned when i was very young that the left wing was about big government, while the right was more into self governance. Do we really have those choices? seems like both "party"'s are increasingly similar and both spend more and more money every year. As a clear example, as far as policy goes, what's the difference between Hillary and Bush?
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"In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices. " - Noam Chomsky
"I mean, what's the elections? You know, two guys, same background, wealth, political influence, went to the same elite university, joined the same secret society where you're trained to be a ruler - they both can run because they're financed by the same corporate institutions. At the Democratic Convention, Barack Obama said, 'only in this country, only in America, could someone like me appear here.' Well, in some other countries, people much poorer than him would not only talk at the convention - they'd be elected president. Take Lula. The president of Brazil is a guy with a peasant background, a union organizer, never went to school, he's the president of the second-biggest country in the hemisphere. Only in America? I mean, there they actually have elections where you can choose somebody from your own ranks. With different policies. That's inconceivable in the United States." - Noam Chomsky
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umm....ya QFT?
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