On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:03:22 -0500, Alma J Wetzker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Lonnie will love it... but you've opened the door for a *ton* of stuff coming
> > from the other side. Best to drop it.
>
> Why do there have to be sides? I believe we are all on the same side. I
> suspect that we all want pretty much the same things. Peace, security,
> freedom, that type of stuff. I suspect that that also cuts across national
> boundarys.
>
There will always be sides, since we have a two party system, and the
two parties will always have different views about how to achieve the
things we want. In this case the one side hates the incumbent with a
passion seldom seen even in American politics, and the other side
believes that the challenger does not have the qualifications to be
commander in chief. There's plenty of blame to go around on all sides.
> The unfortunate part of this is the results of the US election will have
> global repercussions and we are currently trapped between two bad choices.
> The current state of politics leave both "sides" so polarized that there is no
> room for any middle ground.
>
See note above. The core of each party does not believe that we are
facing a bad choice. There is only one choice (in their respective
views). That's the nature of the two party system. One party is
progressive (what we have is never good enough). The other party is
conservative (what we have inherited is pretty damn good). Somewhere
between these two viewpoints lies the middle ground, but the middle
ground is seldom good enough for elections, and the middle ground has
been shrinking for a long time.
A big cause of the furor in the current election process is due to the
change in the election financing laws. Ad campaigns that are not under
party control are now the only way of financing essential viewpoints,
and both sides have employed this to the max.
It will all come out in the wash at election day. Like everyone else,
I'll be unhappy if my guy looses, but the world as we know it will not
end. That's the beauty of the American system.
One especially sad note: the usual suspects are gathering an army of
lawyers in advance to protest the outcome of the election.
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