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To: Ilaine who wrote (45837)	12/9/2000 4:32:17 PM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 436258

CB, just stay away from this thread... they are getting ready to drive over the cliff: Subject 50393

To: Ilaine who wrote (45837)	12/9/2000 5:57:54 PM
From: wsringeorgia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Cobalt, I agree with you on this one. Both parties are led by people who are extreme in their intransigence if not their actual views. And yet in a way there is really a whole lot less over which to squabble than in years past. Just think from the standpoint of the left in the days of FDR, there was no social safety net, no minimum wage and all sorts of real social ills; even real pain and hunger and if you were of the wrong color of skin even worse evils. Those wrongs have mostly been righted. And from the position of the right of that era, well there is a very progressive tax code now as compared to then and we southern "gentry" have already given up our class advantages, so what is left to fight over? In other words if I was a radical activist of that era there was alot to achive and if I was a member of the "privileged class" of that era I had alot to lose. Now it seems we fight with more zeal over issues of less importance. Presently I am not happy with either party, the things I consider most important are secondary issues at best and both parties promote many of the things I find the most offensive. But with my left bias I think I perceive the CAPACITY of the repubs to champion causes which would REALLY get under my skin if the chance arose and the dems IN THE PAST have taken a path I find more agreeable. So admittedly, my bias is a sort of prejudice, a belief that the dems MIGHT suit me more in some future crisis, not that I am all that happy with their actions at present. And yeah, I guess we should stay off politics here, but maybe its ok on weekends. WSR