DarinK wrote on Wed, 15 December 2010 19:43 |
I do believe we'd still be in the wars. Look at what Obama has done or not done. Look at 20th century history - the Democrats have always been just as hawklike as the Republicans, despite conventional wisdom to the contrary. And a Democrat (Clinton) was responsible for the repeal of Glass-Steagal, which was the setup for the global economic crisis. The environment would possibly be better off if Gore had won, though. I don't blame Nader voters in Florida for Bush winning - that was entirely due to f'ed up election procedures & the Supreme Court handing the win to Bush, with Gore meekly standing by and saying he didn't want to interfere because interference would have been heading in the direction of revolution. If you want to blame Nader voters, I'd still blame the Democrats for not ever doing anything for the left wing but expecting their support in every election, unlike the Repubs who give their right wing a voice.
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If you think we'd be in Iraq had Gore been elected, I'm correct to call this foolishness.
I don't disagree that a viable third party (at least) would help our country and world, but denying what the Nader 2000 debacle cost us all is where you drive over the cliff. It cost us.
Trillions of dollars, generations of Legal Freedoms and Hundreds of Thousands of lives.
It's not conventional wisdom, it's history.
The best way to advance your position is NOT over stating, vilification or hyperbole... it's level headed discourse about how a third party would be GOOD.
Agreed, Glass-Steagall was a huge error and should be reinstated and redoubled.
I'll also say that I think the drumbeat of further deregulation is just a way to really open the floodgates and either let corporate interests run and eventually ruin what's left of our world.
BUT, if you think the right wing has a voice, why in republican majority periods have none of the core items on their social agenda been accomplished? Because their elected officials don't represent them faithfully? It's because they find themselves similarly mired in compromises with their opposition.
IMHO the first and best thing we could do for ourselves as citizens is to support a constitutional amendment to define a corporation as something less protected and more culpable than a human person.