Yeah, it's hilarious, ain't it, pdq? ;-) Democrats can get away with enacting conservative fiscal legislation, because their partisan supporters and the media don't scream in protest when they do it.

Likewise, Republicans can get away with doing foreign policy things that the Democrats aren't allowed to do by the public and the media.

Example: Nixon could get away with opening friendly relations with Red China. No Democratic president could have done it...he'd have been accused of being "soft on Communism" and of "abandoning our allies in Taiwan".

It works exactly the same way on either side of the divide, pdq, only in the opposite fashion...mirror image...and I'll tell you why it works that way. It's designed to.

Your society is run by an elite oligarchy. That oligarchy controls your two major parties by controlling their funding. It uses them both to fool you into thinking you have a real choice when you go to the voting booth. It makes you think you still have a functioning democracy, which you do not. If the one party cannot slip some dirty piece of work by you or some radical new policy by you, then the other party can. So they switch places at strategic intervals when the oligarchy wants to push a change in policy...and the dirty work goes forward.

That's the name of the game. The controllers win. You lose. The Democratic and Republican parties are merely two phony football teams who play the game out on the field to keep you all mesmerized and entertained. The oligarchy owns the league, owns the stadium, and sells the tickets. The oligarchy makes the profit.

Now the two teams...they both want to win like hell, of course. Why? Well, winning the phony football game provides perks and glory to the winners. They get to party and live high for the next four years while the other team plans for the next playoff.

You will not get loose from it until you all see how badly you've been had by your corrupt partisan $ySStem...and you dump it once and for all.