On 31 Oct 2002 at 11:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Then I wrote, and Kakki also responded: > > > But overall, the Republicans have been, and are still, the party of > business and of wealth. One need look no farther than its platform > and favorite issues to see this, again and again and again. > > I look at it as a bit more complex than that, but don't have a problem > with it being a champion of business. > > It IS more complex than the Republican Party simply being the champion > of wealth and business, as I elaborated in the paragraph that preceded > that sentence. But my point is still that, of the two major parties, > the Republicans align themselves, and are seen as aligned, much more > closely to the concerns of business and the wealthy than do/are the > Democrats. I stand by that statement. > > I don t know that I have a problem with the party being a champion of > business, either. Business has legitimate interests, and, in a > democracy, the people get to decide which interests to put their votes > behind. My only concern, and this applies to EITHER major party, > would come if or when it attempted to style itself as something it was > not. I see both parties as having been guilty of this in the past > decade, although sometimes it s difficult to tell the difference > between a facelift for political expediency and a genuine change in > direction. >
I think both parties are business parties. It's just that sees it as beneficial to have it as a part of its platform and the other doesn't. I think this comment is critical: "The Republicans align themselves, and ARE SEEN AS ALIGNED, much more closely to the concerns of business and the wealthy than do/are the Democrats." If you read the actual party platform it is clear that it speaks to prosperity moreso than wealth. However, the media and Democratic spin is that it is about wealth, just as the Republican spin is that Dems want to rob the public with taxation and make the government bigger. Personally, I find both sides of the spin extreme, distracting and counterproductive to the American people reaching some consensus among our seemingly opposing views and using that consensus to demand better from our elected officials. B -------------------------------------------- "Radio has no future" - Lord Kelvin, 1897
