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« on: August 14, 2013, 06:38:51 PM » |
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« edited: August 14, 2013, 06:41:11 PM by State Comptroller Atkins »
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My feelings on the Democratic Party are somewhat similar to Peter Hitchens' feelings on the Conservative Party. For the most part it is utterly useless from a meaningful leftist point of view. The way it effed-up healthcare reform was perhaps the most painfully obvious example. I really would love to see an alternative (and viable) left-wing party (such as is the case in, you know, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Netherlands, Sweden....), just as many on the right would love to see an alternative to the Republican Party, but given how the American political system works, it's not going to happen in the near future. But there would be some hope if the party regisration nonsense were done away with.
Funnily enough, I used to hold the idiotic belief (back during Obamamania in 2008/2009) that the Democratic Party (and Obama) was the best thing since sliced bread.
Anyway, as for the future of the two parties, I suspect that they'll both continue to (gradually) move with the times, just as they have done throughout their histories.
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