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[credit Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune]
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Both sides are promising to work together, but as Americans know to their increasing dismay, Washington is full of hot air and very little bipartisanship. making them very disaffected towards politics as the game is played there. Ralph Nader, when ran as an independent for president, once quipped that their was not a
dime's worth of difference between the two parties.
US Person subscribed to his view before the "tea party" faction and puppetmasters the Koch Brothers turned the Republican Party, the party of Eisenhower and Dirksen, into a revanchist club for the rich and fascist. Opposing such right-wing
extremism, the Democratic Party should have no trouble winning national elections, but it does. Part of the problem is the Democrats have drifted a long way from their moorings in the labor and
populist movements of the previous century. Their big money supporters are wealthy entrepreneurs, financiers, entertainers, and CEOs--the same class that supports the GOP. Liberal rhetoric that captured the White House could only inspire voters for a short time in contrast to very mixed results. Instead of hope and change, we got Obamacare and gridlock.
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[credit: Pat Oliphant]
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