Bruce - your point is well-taken. If the Democrats had the guts to actually have a genuinely leftist policy then they would provide a real alternative to the Republicans, and you'd have something a lot closer to a real election every 2 years. As it is, all they offer is lukewarm Republicanism, half-baked, regurgitated, and served up as if to a baby bird...with petty and minor differences in what is (by any except USA terms) a conservative policy which pretends to be something different, but isn't. All they can come up with is "We're nicer than they are..."

It's a pathetic performance, but I suspect it is largely due to the fact that the Democrats are funded by pretty much the same powerful backroom interests who fund the Republicans....which was part of my original point.

- LH