Claymore, do you really believe that salvation lies in the Democrats not winning the next election (and the one after that, and the one after that, and...)? Are you that naive?

If so, and if Democratic supporters believe the opposite about the Republicans (which most of them do), then you have both fallen into the same trap.

Divide and conquer tactics are what have the American public hypnotized into an eternal and useless battle for superficial control of "the government" by one major party or the other, but it doesn't matter. The same large interests make use of both parties. The fact that the two parties have a somewhat different official "style" has precious little effect on content, but it does serve to help perpetuate the game.

The farce of your electoral politics is like the false front on an old Hollywood B-western set. Behind it is control by megacorporations, banks, and major financial players who play the rest of you all for suckers.

They own both of those parties, and they pick exactly who you get to vote for...on both sides.

And you can't do anything about it, short of armed revolution, so I am not surprised you exist in a state of denial and continue squabbling over the paltry differences between the two pathetic partisan choices you are normally offered at election time.

It's better than only one official party, but that's about all one can say in its defence. Never was so much put over on so many by so few.

I happen to prefer the Democrats (a bit) because I like their outer style better, but once in office they will serve the same powers behind the scenes that the Republicans do, and will simply change the trimmings on the tree a little in order to make it look like they are different.

It's a game. You play if you vote. You abstain if you don't. But you never win this game, unless you're one of the bosses at the top.

You also have elections (basically a puerile popularity contest in which both presidential candidates try to prove that they have bigger balls than the other guy)...elections that last about a YEAR!!! In Canada, our election campaigns last 6 weeks...and believe me, that is more than enough. The Presidential election is a whole lot of money wasted on a futile and phony endeavour, and he who has the most corporate backing wins the game, cos that's where the big money comes from.

Any 3rd party which tries to get started doesn't have a hope in hell, because the System will make sure of that...and they don't have the funding or media coverage. It's a closed shop. You either vote for the "Union" (Dems-Repubs) or you can stay home.

And that means that nothing really changes except the window-dressings.

- LH