You Americans who consider yourselves liberals should not despair because Bush got in. Believe me, the country will survive 4 years of Republican administration. It has before, and it will again. It survived 8 years of Reagan, who couldn't even count his jelly beans and get the same number twice in a row. What the hell, things could be worse, right? Maybe Dubya isn't all that bad anyway.

As a Canadian, I can tell you this...you are virtually all born right from the start as either Democrats or Republicans...which means...you are born into an existing set of mythological ideas which you unconsciously mould into your political reality. If you're born into a Democratic family, then you see everything through that set of glasses. If Republican, then the other set. It's very difficult, if not impossible, for either Democrats or Republicans to be truly impartial or objective about what the other is doing or saying. Ergo, it's virtually impossible for either to be fair or reasonable toward the other over political issues.

Needless to say, neither one of those parties has been sanctioned by heaven (take my word on this). They both will say ANYTHING and promise ANYTHING in order to get themselves elected. They are both motivated by self-interest, and desire to perpetuate themselves. They do it at the expense of the general public.

The only way you, as a people, could become totally rational and truly free is IF THE DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN PARTIES CEASED TO EXIST! And if all other parties likewise ceased to exist, and you voted for individual people instead, and formed a goverment which worked as a circle of equals, not as a house divided against itself.

Sadly, I fear that is not going to happen. I wish it would.

In Canada, I wish the same thing would happen...because our stupid political parties mislead the public here in exactly the same fashion...although the influence of BIG money, hidden control, and corruption is still less here than in the USA.

The grand political illusion of our age is that competitive political parties can produce a democratic and humanistic system. They cannot. There needs to be a whole new system of forming governments, not these divisive and corrupt elections that masquerade as democratic process.

There also needs to be a world government, with a world bill of rights, and a consistent system of justice, and a world security force to enforce it. Otherwise the haves will simply continue to enslave the have-nots, while keeping the middle class pacified with empty consumerism, and most of us will contine to suffer in one way or another, falling way short of the full potential of a human life, so that a very few can live in unheard of luxury and privilege. "The Big Ones Get Away"...with murder.

I mean this in all seriousness.

Regards,

- LH