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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: moosebeary who wrote (4230)	12/1/2000 8:58:43 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

Hi moose, Was glad to see you also like Trafficant, my favorite congressman, he is to the right of most Republicans, and too honest for either party. Yeah, dat Jimmie, he's some-a kinda piece o' woik. Some political scientists see the matter of political stance to be more of a circle than a continuum. Thus if you go far enough to the Right, you end up on the Left, and vice versa. Another way of looking at it is the split between libertarians and anarchists. You can hardly slip a sheet of paper between the two. Thus CB and I can be basically in agreement, policy-wise, about almost everything, except who won. The main parties, Dems and Republicans alike are far more interested in aggrandizing the power of the state than I am. That's the authoritarian vs. true laisse faire polarity. Lot's of other ways exist as well to describe this circle of polity. But, basically describing "Left v. Right" certainly makes for easier conversation. Though far more obstreperous disputation. <g> Not one to have second thoughts but occasionally...... after penning my Trafficante post, I realized I should have also suggested that I would have liked to have been likened to Tom Hayden, California State Senator from Santa Monica. Another fellow who's been trying to tell the truth, as he sees it, for the last four decades. :) The best I can say about the parties is that I'm more inclined than ever at this point to be looking for a viable 3rd party alternative. :) Best, Ray