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Politics : THE STARR REPORT -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Coolwire who wrote (1085)	9/17/1998 2:39:00 AM
From: PAT JENNING	Respond to of 1533

Doesn't it all come down to a simple fact: people bother to vote when they think that the election means something. Despite our heated rhetoric, American politics is so much tweedle-dee-dee and tweedle-dee-dum. Except for his virility, Clinton might as well be a liberal Republican (just a joke, folks). As for the lack of a genuine socialist movement in this country, I suspect that part of the reason is that we are a nation of immigrants and descendants of immigrants. Immigrants tend to be self-reliant people, the kind that like to think that they made their way on their own with nobody's help. Whether it is true or not. I wouldn't worry about the Democratic party's health. I've watched the demise of three or four parties in my lifetime. The Republican party folded in 1964, the Democrats folded in 1972 and again in '80 and '84 and '88. At least, that's the way the press reported it. I don't think it's possible for either party to disappear in a two-party system. Each just moves to the left or right as necessary.