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Quote by: Sonart There's all kinds of political parties in America, Jubloz. But since the Democrats and Republicans represent pretty much the American political mainstream, that means the others represent the political fringes. |
If so, that "mainstream" has spontaneously been flowing ever more to the right over the past 40 years. Is this true? Or is it rather that the electoral system has been pumped so full of money that legislators are in the pocket of Big Money? If they want to get re-elected that is.
Meanwhile, the media (the public's source of information) is owned by an ever-more-concentrated group representing (you guessed it) Big Money.
Where does this leave the concept of "representation"?
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We here in America are lucky ... in that we've evolved a Constitutional Democratic Republic that makes use of their best attributes -- drive, vision, the desire to succeed and do some good, etc. -- while putting checks and balances on their worst attributes -- greed, naked ambition, lust for power, etc.
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Luckier than where? Equatorial Guinea? Agreed!
But these checks on greed, naked ambition, lust for power, etc. have certainly failed miserably in the last two presidential elections, which were clearly stolen by the Bushite Republicans.
By 2004 everybody was too cowed by the "terrism" threat to note the obvious. But even Americans had to hang their heads in embarrassment in 2000 when
even they were apprised by their media that the country had fallen to the electoral status of banana republic.