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To: stsimon who wrote (316149)

11/1/2016 4:17:24 PM

From: koan

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I was only putting this into a philosophical perspective as an outsider looking in. I was explaining the motivation of each group i.e. the conservatives are simply defending the status quo.

But I guess a person could say there were three groups. The conservatives, the uneducated who just want to lash out and then the progressives. But it becomes a moot point when the classical conservatives are willing to join the uneducated and disgruntled folks.

So one still ends up with one group of people that want to live in the past and another group of people that want to live in the future.

And like I said, what other philosophy or political platform could replace either the Republicans or the Democrats that is viable.

I maintain there is none e.g. there is nothing the Green party is advocating that any good liberal Democrat is not advocating. As far as the Republican Party goes, one could point to the Libertarian party, but that's not a viable philosophy.

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This isn't academia. This election has little to do with philosophy, its about which candidate is worse in the mind of the voters. The voters that decide the elections don't care about such intellectual concepts as philosophy. Most of them would spell it "fillosofie".