"The Three Political Parties of America" Robin Koerner

[ZakCarter]

There are three political parties in the United States today, and they are all fielding candidates for the presidency.

The parties are the Republicrats, the Scared Religionists, and the Freedom and Peace Party.

By far the largest party is the Republicrats, who have held sway with their current platform since at least the 1940s. They are offering two candidates for president in 2012: their names are Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.

Being such a large party, they have adopted a clever means of ensuring that they hold power perpetually: they split themselves into two wings called "Democrat" and "Republican." This rather clever setup allows them to compete with each other in the formal competitions of American democracy by emphasizing different pieces of the platform, while ensuring that one of the wings will always hold sway, allowing them to implement their shared social democratic platform.

And what is this platform? It is a corporate socialist one. They stand for enlarging government, the replacement of individual civil rights with centralized programs, the redistribution of wealth from working individuals to the non-working but mostly corporate and special interests (their main sponsors) and a military presence throughout most of the world.

Read the rest at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-koerner/the-three-political-parti_b_1355340.html

Great stuff Robin!

[PolicyReader]

I want to say that this reasoning is self-evident, however so many don't seem to be willing/able to even entertain the possibility let alone accept the information, that it makes me doubt my choice of terms :p

[WilliamC]

I want to say that this reasoning is self-evident, however so many don't seem to be willing/able to even entertain the possibility let alone accept the information, that it makes me doubt my choice of terms :p

“It’s hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding.” - Upton Sinclair

[PolicyReader]

“It’s hard to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding.” - Upton Sinclair
I love that quote but I'm tend to forget the author, thanks for the citation :D

[sailingaway]

I think somewhere along the way he morphed from a progressive who supports Ron Paul's civil liberties and foreign policy stances to an outright Ron Paul supporter, but maybe that's just me....

In any event, he sounds more and more like us all the time.

[PolicyReader]

I think somewhere along the way he morphed from a progressive who supports Ron Paul's civil liberties and foreign policy stances to an outright Ron Paul supporter, but maybe that's just me....

In any event, he sounds more and more like us all the time.
That happens ;)
Honestly when I started out I was heavily dubious about Ron econ policy (I'd digested too many neo con talking points that sounded the same even tho obviously they're not) but the more I read and the more I heard him talk about it the more sense it made. So I started challenging my politically active friends to cut apart the point of view and tell me where it functionally failed... it's coming up on 5 years now and I still have yet to get a real answer to that one (color me convinced ;) )