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?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
Indeed, our two-party system is ossified; it lacks integrity and creativity and any sense of courage or high-aspiration in confronting our problems. We simply will not be able to do the things we need to do as a country to move forward ?with all the vested interests that have accrued around these two parties,? added Diamond. ?They cannot think about the overall public good and the longer term anymore because both parties are trapped in short-term, zero-sum calculations,? where each one?s gains are seen as the other?s losses.
We have to rip open this two-party duopoly and have it challenged by a serious third party that will talk about education reform, without worrying about offending unions; financial reform, without worrying about losing donations from Wall Street; corporate tax reductions to stimulate jobs, without worrying about offending the far left; energy and climate reform, without worrying about offending the far right and coal-state Democrats; and proper health care reform, without worrying about offending insurers and drug companies.
?If competition is good for our economy,? asks Diamond, ?why isn?t it good for our politics??
We need a third party on the stage of the next presidential debate to look Americans in the eye and say: ?These two parties are lying to you. They can?t tell you the truth because they are each trapped in decades of special interests. I am not going to tell you what you want to hear. I am going to tell you what you need to hear if we want to be the world?s leaders, not the new Romans.?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/opini … ef=opinion
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
That may be all well and good, but when have the American people been smart enough to vote en masse for any candidate who thought long term?
This makes me feel like the collective IQ of the U.S.A. has dropped low enough to warrant a dictatorship.
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That may be all well and good, but when have the American people been smart enough to vote en masse for any candidate who thought long term?
This makes me feel like the collective IQ of the U.S.A. has dropped low enough to warrant a dictatorship.
They were before women were given the right to vote.
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
A party that represents the People and not corporations? Don't be silly!
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
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They were before women were given the right to vote.
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
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Post regged, Leslie.
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
Another Jew who blames the voters who get all their information from the Jew controlled media for falling for the lies of his tribe.
Is he Jared Diamond's brother?
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
I agree with the earlier poster. The citizens of this country have lost the ability to vote for their own best interests. A dictatorship phase is in order.
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Another Jew who blames the voters who get all their information from the Jew controlled media for falling for the lies of his tribe.
Is he Jared Diamond's brother?
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They were before women were given the right to vote.
This is the basic truth. It isn't so much that 
itself is a nation killer, but it's the destruction of social structures that created our civilizations. Once chicks and loafing whytes got to vote, they've slowly just started to grant themselves all sorts of free shyt and the illusion of safety from growing government. It worked great when we had tons of imperial wealth laying about. Those days are over. Now we're a nation of undisciplined grabby hands. It will end in disaster, as it always has.
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Leslie, what does your goy Republican lawyer daddy think of whytes?
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
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This is the basic truth. It isn't so much that
Ever stop to wonder if funding our billion dollar war toys and trillon dollar wars had anything to do with it? Remember before the Iraq war when a few generals and activists were warning that going into Iraq would cost huge amounts of money and kill thousands of troops? They were laughed at as hippie commie traitors or forced into early retirement. Of course, republicans never talk about that. They like to blame all our money woes on minorities and liberals. But the never factor in that all those flag waving wars cost money too.
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
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Ever stop to wonder if funding our billion dollar war toys and trillon dollar wars had anything to do with it? Remember before the Iraq war when a few generals and activists were warning that going into Iraq would cost huge amounts of money and kill thousands of troops? They were laughed at as hippie commie traitors or forced into early retirement. Of course, republicans never talk about that. They like to blame all our money woes on minorities and liberals. But the never factor in that all those flag waving wars cost money too.
Put down the pipe, moonie. what the fuq does this have to do with anything?
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Re: ?We basically have two bankrupt parties bankrupting the country,? said the Stanford University political scientist Larry Diamond
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Ever stop to wonder if funding our billion dollar war toys and trillon dollar wars had anything to do with it? Remember before the Iraq war when a few generals and activists were warning that going into Iraq would cost huge amounts of money and kill thousands of troops? They were laughed at as hippie commie traitors or forced into early retirement. Of course, republicans never talk about that. They like to blame all our money woes on minorities and liberals. But the never factor in that all those flag waving wars cost money too.
Those wars are fought for Israel so that's a racial problem as well.
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