I don't have the faith in the Democratic Party that you do, Bobert. That's the crucial difference between us right there. I think the Democrats are basically pursuing the same corporate course the Republicans are...but through a different style of rhetoric.

You're quite right that the Democrats ARE fighting the Republicans tooth and nail...as you said...and the Republicans are fighting the Democrats tooth and nail...

Yeah.

Just like 2 hockey or football teams, they are fighting each other tooth and nail...but for what?

For the VICTORY, that's what! They are fighting for power. Once in power, however, they are both willing servants of corporate policy. And what is corporate policy? It is to...

1. privatize public institutions
2. move jobs to the cheapest parts of the globe ("free trade")
3. crush small business and form corporate monopolies in its place
4. secure control of strategic resources in the world (oil, natural gas, uranium, water, arable land, etc)
5. enrich the corporate elite at everyone else's expense
6. destroy the middle class
7. reduce workers' wages and benefits and increase salaries of CEOs
8. increase domestic surveillance and reduce civil rights
9. ramp up military production and fight wars for profit
10. secure huge PROFITS for the elite at any cost to the rest of us!

Both parties live to beat each other on the playing field that is the great political game. But once in office, they serve the corporate Oligarchy, not you and me. And that's the way it is. In my opinion, it won't end until they create a world disaster so great that it brings them crashing down...or until there's a worldwide popular revolution that brings them down.

Either way, it's not going to be a nice thing to live through for anyone who gets caught in the "fallout" and collateral damage.