| flap, sometimes I tend to disbelieve your claim to have been a Republican, because you are so full of misinformation and cliches that sound like they are derived from the Popular Front era. Then I decide to give you the benefit of the doubt. Then, you say things like "The Republicans are the party of fat cats and corporate corruption", or "the Democratic Party is the party of the common working man", and I scratch my head again, and wonder how an intelligent Democrat could say such things, much less a former Republican. The Republican Party is the party of Main Street, primarily. No one has a mass party made up of "fat cats", and corporations hedge their bets. In fact, because of the bias in favor of incumbents, for years Congressional Democrats got more corporate money then Republicans. As for the Democratic Party representing the common working man, well, it has shown a marked propensity to ignore the interests of working people, like loggers, when they conflict with environmentalist goals, and to deride the culture of the working man, which tends to be socially conservative. How do you think the Reagan Democrat came into being? |
