The fact remains that the American public has been hypnotized into a futile divide between two huge, corrupt, and patently phony political parties who both serve the same corporate sponsors and huge financial interests. I call those 2 parties the Redemocrapublicants. As long as people play the same old "let's pick between Tweedledee and Tweedledum" they will continue to be enslaved by the same set of scoundrels, and will effectively have no real voice.

I despise Bush. I expect very little in the way of positive change from Kerry, because he's just a front man for powerful interests. The style will change, but probably not the substance.

It's very, very sad to watch this happen every 4 years in what pretends to be a great democracy.

I can't foresee a solution, because those who control the pursestrings also control almost all the media, and can afford to finance the propaganda that passes for "news" and "campaigning". It's a closed shop.

The USA will play out its string of falsehood until it loses its pre-eminance in the World through the inevitable historical forces that are much larger than the power America commands. Then, like France or Spain or Britain it will become a once-great empire, pushed to the periphery as others take over its spot as king of the hill.

Then it won't matter much anymore about the Redemocrapublicants and their phony elections. I give it 20 or 30 more years at the most.

- LH