On 05/10/2006, at 9:19 PM, jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You really think that I think the Democrats are any better?
Hypocrites and liars on both sides.
You did leave me with that distinct impression..... but maybe I'm
just used to that being the default position of brin-l....
To clarify - you think the default position is of Brin-L is Democrat
(or anti-Republican, even)? You're probably right. And to be honest,
my default position is closer to Democrats than Republicans.
But that's sort of like saying my default position is closer to
Uranus than Neptune...
Anyway - in an ideal world, my disagreements with Republicans would
be on policy. But at the moment it's not, it's with the ideology of
the current administration and the damaging shortsightedness of that.
And the Democrats have been complicit, as a party, by not providing a
resistance to this, especially to the erosion of checks and balances,
and the power-grab by the Executive. Even if they were going to get
rolled as a minority, they should have still stood up for their own
policies. And didn't. Shame on them. The system only works if there
are two parties instead of one.
However, I don't think the system is broken just yet. It has saddened
me to see the decline of American values and their replacement with
authoritarian ideology, but it's not too late for the system to self-
correct. There are plenty of Republicans out there that I'd disagree
with but still respect. Hopefully they'll have their day. Ask me
again in another couple of years.
Charlie
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