The Democrats are Right of Center, all Pretending Aside

At least the Republicans are honest about being far to the right. They are proud to be to the right, as perverse as that may seem to a progressive.

But the Democrats are, by world standards, a bizarre party, because they pretend to be centrist or even a touch progressive, at least during campaigns, but they are most definitely a right of center party, more to the right than the most conservative mainstream parties in all Western and Northern European countries. Make no mistake, for example, President Sarkozy of France is substantially more progressive than is Obama, Harry Reid, or Steny Hoyer.

The progressive caucus Democrats go along with this game of pretend, instead of quitting the party and getting a new one going as they really need to do. I guess Kucinich and so forth go along because they know the political system is about as deficient as is the economics one. Due to the political culture, numerous regulations, and legal restrictions, it usually seems that 3rd parties might as well be banned outright in the States.

If this country really does go completely down the tubes, it probably will be due to BOTH a massive economics failure and a massive political failure at the same time. One of those failures is devastating but both together may be like what the fly experiences when it is swatted.

Or it may be like the prognosis for a vehicle after a nasty breakdown: "We discovered your problem, Miss: both your transmission and your engine went at the same time; your car isn't even worth fixing," laugh out loud.

[The above was in response to this article.]