.. . .
Fine, anyone who has ever spent a month in Europe can dig PJ's meaning,
but so what? If our guardian angel waved her remote tuner and magically
produced a parliamentary system, given the nutbar of obsessions stalking
our fractured so-called society there would be more single-issue
PJM writes:
The answer as to why class politics did not emerge in the US with
an electoral manifestation as opposed to
Europe is SIMPLE. (Skocpol's analysis is so beside the point it is
embarrassing.) It is the difference in the electoral systems.
He then proceeds with a cogent explanation