11-04-2004, 06:16 PM
Hi,
All too true. However, the same can be said for the Republicans and their association with the fundamentalist far right. Look at the numbers. Each side represents less than 45% of the nation (and a lot of those 45% from each side pick their party because, although it is extreme, it is extreme *their* way). And yet, overall, the nation is in agreement on many, indeed most, topics (although the media never really addresses that, do they?)
What this nation needs is not a better Republican party or a better Democratic party. What this nation needs is a new party, composed of the 80 to 90% of the people who are smart enough to realize that extremes are to be avoided. Of course, that will never happen -- or at least not until media stupidity becomes a terminal disease.
--Pete
Ashock,Nov 4 2004, 10:42 AM Wrote:Here's what the Democrats need to do. They need to disassocate themselves from all the former Green party members that have embraced the Democratic party in the last several years.
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All too true. However, the same can be said for the Republicans and their association with the fundamentalist far right. Look at the numbers. Each side represents less than 45% of the nation (and a lot of those 45% from each side pick their party because, although it is extreme, it is extreme *their* way). And yet, overall, the nation is in agreement on many, indeed most, topics (although the media never really addresses that, do they?)
What this nation needs is not a better Republican party or a better Democratic party. What this nation needs is a new party, composed of the 80 to 90% of the people who are smart enough to realize that extremes are to be avoided. Of course, that will never happen -- or at least not until media stupidity becomes a terminal disease.
--Pete
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