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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (23343)	12/10/2009 1:10:02 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "Whether that's true or not, a conservative backlash is a healthy thing for the GOP." I have LONG been a believer that in the Twentieth Century something went 'wrong' with political Parties in America. In the Nineteenth Century we had true VITALITY in politics. New political parties rose and old ones fell all the time. The public was better served by that I think than the Oligopoly on POWER that the 'Republi-Crat' bunch has exerted for nearly all of the Twentieth (and now Twenty First...) Century. I blame Gerrymandering, and the two parties conspiring with the Courts to raise 'ballot requirements' so high that new political parties and groupings are frozen out of the system... and the public is reduced to only having a choice of "Brand A" or "Brand B" with, always, the 'new boss same as the old boss'. (But that's another story, and a different complaint.) Re: "What I find interesting is that Ron Paul has been, in effect, his own 'tea party' for years." True. A strain of libertarianism has run through both sides of the Republi-Crat duopoly for decades now --- but it has never gained enough strength to take over and control either one of them. And, in both Dem. and Rep. parties there has long been strong establishment opposition to giving libertarian philosophy anything more then 'lip service'. Perhaps, since dislike of BOTH Republican and Democrat parties is so high now, (in fact hasn't been higher in half a century or more), we may have a chance to bring one of 'em down and replace it with something new. (Which would dramatically change the other bunch as well.) But the odds are still long against that. The duopoly has built too many protections for itself into the system....