If Obama's presidency sort of blows apart either the Republican or Democratic Parties, this might be a teaching moment for the US masses. I don't know. I heard on Bill Press this morning that two Democrats were on the front page of some paper asking Obama to declare that he is not going to run for re-election. Could Obama's presidency divide the Democratic Party, a new route to a third party through an unexpected "dialectic" ? Comment I of course voted for Obama and stated such on this list. I also stated my connection with him through the vote, rather than as a supporter of the Democratic Party establishment, ended at the last inaugural dance. The Democratic and Republican parties are already polarized and fractured. Obama’s presidency further divided and polarized both parties before he was sworn into office.
After coming to office Obama’s politics of new “bipartisanship” sought to unite the center of both parties into a ruling coalition. This has been his stated policy from day one and if has further polarized and widened the fracture with the political grouping organized around and in support of Clinton. The new Health Care bill, once it is experienced, will all but finish Obama off politically. Thus, it contains many components not to be implemented until 2014, 2018 and 2020. Third parties are already coming out of both Democrats and Republican polarities. Within the Democratic Party are the efforts of the PDA – Progressive Democrats of America, but I am not sure if they will be able to get any traction. The “blue dogs” Democrats, who on the American continuum of politics are Dixiecrats preferring not to whistle Dixie out loud, took a horrific ass wiping in the midterm election, losing half of their official members. With the Republicans the big split is the Tea Party. The there was registered growth of the Green party votes and various socialist party votes in the midterm election. The governor race in Ohio and the vote for socialist candidate is a case in point. The thing about the two party system is that the growth of a Third Party effort from “the left” generally means the worse of worse of candidates in both parties generally are going to win. This trap is built into the system. Third party movement coming out of the Republican camp pushes everything further to the right, or the worse of the worse in both parties. Obama is banking on his worse winning. WL. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
