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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (146158)	10/3/2010 8:23:27 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540882

Benen I assume thinks we can tweak the system to appease enough people that we slug forward as a two party broken system. I don't know what Benen's position is on this question. He was addressing a different one: is there a political presence that can be organized in terms of Friedman's argument. And the answer was no. Second, he answers the question as to where one can find Friedman's preferences reflected in the present political space and that's Obama's segment of the Dems. Since he's both astute and pretty pessimistic right now, I doubt he would use the word "tweaks" to describe what needs to be done to the political system. He just locates the problem in a different space--the refusal of the Reps to engage policy making in a responsible way. And, worst of all, that will get worse. I would gather he's as lost as the rest of us as how to get from here to there.