On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 6:55 AM, Gilbert Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps it is time for the Right Wing (extremists) and the Left Wing (extremists) of each party to separate and form their own party instead of making their main > political party hostage to their extreme agenda and chaotic behavior. Then hopeful the two and other major political parties can debate solutions to the real > problems facing the country.
GL, One of the bitterest complaints Nyerere had about the US system is that the country is essentially a two capitalist party state. The election debate is restricted as to how extreme or moderate a capitalist one wants to chose. Other countries, Canada included, offer a real choice of politicians and parties - of all political persuasions. > As far as your eleven year old not seeing a white man as president, I hope you have told her that she has not missed much. > To see a real successful white man as president she may have to go back to Franklin Roosevelt and Eisenhower. I hope your eleven year old daughter > (and my ten year old grand-daughter) can now look forward to the REAL possibility of being president of the USA. Ted Cruz's run has definitely helped my daughter as it is now established that one does not have to be born in the USA to be President. Ted Cruz has opened the White House doors to all those "Born near the USA." :-) > I read your's and Jim's posts on this thread. Interestingly and amazingly both of you ditch your respected gurus (Bloomberg and Sanders respectively) when > it suits you both. I rest my case! You may or may not realize that despite your economic conservatism, you-both follow leaders that are Populists - Authoritarian > populism (Trump) and Democratic populism (Sanders). It is good to be Anti-Establishment (as I am); but do not cut off your nose to spite your face (as many > Goans tend to do). And while both are you are for TPP (which Trump and Sanders oppose), Sanders' socio-economic solutions (education, taxes, healthcare, > military expenditure, etc) are exactly opposite to Tump's. Sanders would have been my choice on the Democrat side and Kasich on the Republican side. However, we live in a globalized economy now. Any politician reneging on trade treaties will slow down the world economy and increases joblessness/poverty. Lastly, I was in college when the US was pushing hard for the grand-daddy of all economic treaties - NAFTA. Let me say this again, the US was pushing hard for NAFTA. The US wrote the laws and it is the country that benefits the most from NAFTA, regardless of what any politician says every four years. Most researched/published papers will confirm the same. And yes, the US is losing manufacturing jobs every time it signs a trade agreement. Capitalism thrives when new industries are born or created. The cost is that old industries and their workers have to be buried. Mervyn
