2010: Two Parties of the Right Fighting it Out and you have no dog in that Fight

One of the many things Rich doesn't understand is that Democrats in 2010 are way to the right of Democrats of the 1960's. So trying to compare Lyndon Johnson to Harry Reid is comparing apples and oranges. (Please save yourself some typing, I am aware that Lyndon Johnson did some right wing things in his day, but the point is that he was no where near as right wing as are most of the Democrats of 2010.)

When you see the Democrats and Republicans sparring these days, you are looking at two right of center parties fighting it out, nothing more and nothing less. This is why you can forget about, for example, real action for real job creation. All right wing parties are opposed to direct forms of government action for job creation. Whereas Lyndon Johnson was in favor of some direct government job creation.

It should also be noted in this very quick posting that most third world countries are more or less confined to right wing parties for their rosters of parties that can actually win national elections. So this is another one of those little signs that the US has crossed over into third world status.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.
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I'll Take any of the Three Popular Canadian Parties Over Either of the two American Parties

There is no need to look at Europe, actually. You can just look at Canada to see how far into right wing loony land the US has gone. All three Canadian political parties are left of both US parties. That is, all three Canadian parties are more pro-worker and pro-common man than both of the US parties.

Just to name a few examples of differences, all three Canadian parties support national health care, public ownership of many utilities, and true public education. All of these things are lost or in the final stages of being lost in the US.

The US starting about 1980 went off the deep end, pure and simple, and now people who can't get a job or who don't have a house are paying the price. And they will continue to pay the price in most cases for the rest of their lives. Through such things as credit ratings, elites are able to transfer responsibility for their failures onto ordinary people.

Both US parties are dragging the country down the drain now. We can only hope, especially if progressives and perhaps libertarian conservatives continue to stubbornly resist unifying into a new party, that if the system completely collapses, that BOTH the Republican and the Democratic parties go into the dustbin of history. At that point, there would be a clean slate for a fresh start.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.
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Waiting for or at Least Dreaming About Political Evolution in the USA

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Trylon February 1st, 2010 8:49 am
Well, in the POV of a dual citizen the State of the Union is not Comatose, it is Deceased. The United States has ceased to be governable under the form of government it created in the Constitution. This form envisioned a "loyal opposition", not over-my-dead-body, better-dead-than-liberal/conservative, lock and load obstructionism. That experiment has failed. It is a "late parrot", as John Cleese would say.

We are in a political prison because of imprinting upon a two party system, an imprinting that has no more validity than the stupid refusal of Americans to use two dollar bills. Dual citizenship has exposed me, for 30 years, to the system of parliamentary democracy. It works. Citizens vote for the party that best expresses their view of the correct relationship between the individual and the state. Having done so, they entrust that party to choose their leader. What could save this country is the intelligence to abandon the Presidency. Wake up. State of the Union events show that our Presidents are really evaluated as good or bad kings. We get really ticked off by lousy kingliness.

If the American people get paddles on the government chest fast enough there could be a chance. The shock that is needed is the total dissolution of both the Democratic and Republican political parties, and their replacement with the full range of political viewpoints. If we don't have the sense to do this, we will turn into lurching Zombies. Not a few citizens of other countries feel that's what we already are.

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Exactly true, the best countries in the world have moved beyond domination by kings and presidents and by those few that fund them and militarily support them. Obama apparently knows all too well that it is his funders and not his voters that support him the most.

Those who have not moved on from presidents and kings are mostly your third world countries and countries that are borderline third world. How ironic, for example, that the results of the American Revolution have been more or less turned upside down. Another big irony is the big role that the Americans had in setting up the Japanese and German governments after World War 2. These governments have over the years proven to be much superior to the American one in the age of huge piles of money and globalism.

The above was in response to this article at Common Dreams.

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