Roe, re: test... I read you 5x5.
I guess we agree somewhat on the issue, but I tend to view myself as a mix of classical progressive in the Teddy Rooseveldt mold mixed with Libertarianism.
Agree that both major parties are hard to distinguish -- shoot even just 10 years ago, they at least differed somewhat on social issues/civil rights, but now I'm not seeing any differences at all between them with one exception.
People on the forum for which this one is an antidote tend to view everything through the prism that there is only one oligarchic ruling class, whereas I tend to think there really are at least two, maybe three such ruling oligarchic factions fighting to control the world. After all, where is it written that all major ruling oligarchs are in agreement on how the world should be run?
History teaches us that the struggle is not really the peasants vs. the overlords, but between competing factions of overlords who use the peasants to fight for supremacy of their particular overlords and against the competing ones.
Funny thing about overlords, they don't tolerate other overlords because each of them believes they are the only true beacon of right and wrong and every other overlord is an evil person who must be destroyed.
I find it hard to believe that the Russian oligarchs have the exact same agenda as ones in the US or even Mexico or Brazil or China or India. Yes, they share some agenda items, but not all and those differences are all that stand between the screwed up systems of gov't. we see around the world and total world domination by just one single faction of oligarchs.
As one of the most brilliant minds the planet has ever seen once said (The Brain to Pinky): "Ten seconds until we all implode!"
Jim |
