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To: Mr. Whist who wrote (258572)	5/25/2002 2:49:24 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

flapjack, I agree completely with your assessment of how corrupt and greedy the corporate elite have become, and how they have corrupted the Republican leadership. There is hope within the Republican Party that some honest members will raise their voices against the onslaught of corporate abuse. Jim Jeffords leads, in an ironic sense, by example. I know many Republicans from the northern latitudes who are becoming increasingly fed up with the party leadership, which is now completely controlled by Big Business interests. This is beginning to trouble a greater number of honest Republicans who are seeing their party become a rat's nest of criminals, crooks and traitors who permit vast swindles like the Stanley Works scheme. That said, I am in agreement with Gore Vidal and Katrina Vanden Heuvel Editor, The Nation that the Democrats, especially the DLC have sold their souls to the corporate money men as well. Vidal calls our system "the two right wings of the Corporate Party, one mild, one extreme." I think that is a very accurate assessment. Progressives within the Democratic Party, honorable people like Russ Feingold, Paul Wellstone, Henry Waxman, Nancy Pelosi and others are a distinct minority within the voting ranks of the Party. Though it is my opinion that they represent the real interests of the vast majority of Americans far better than the leadership. Sadly, the American public is a mob, it is easily swayed by emotional appeals to patriotism, and it is scared of its own shadow by events like Sept. 11, an incident that is either pure "blowback" for 104 years of arrogant imperial policy, or more sinisterly considered, a provoked and promoted episode that the military-industrial complex is cynically manipulating for its own benefit. Hopefully some of the investigations to come will open the eyes of more Americans to the fact that the Federal government really doesn't have the interests of the average citizen in mind when it creates its grasping policies, such as our occupation of Central Asia currently going on without much debate or discussion in the press or in Congress. All the best, Ray