Yet more evidence that there's not a dime's worth of difference between the two major parties...Brad DeLong
OK, make that "there's not a quarter's worth of difference" (and that adjusts for inflation also). Carl
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I am trying hard to figure out a convincing reason to vote, and then vote the democratic ticket. It is given that neither party comes close to representing my economic interests and political positions and are in fact two camps of the same life long adversary.
The only reason I can use to convince myself to vote is that I am choosing a list of issues to fight against. Which of the two parties present the more advantageous list of targets?
Do I really want to fight over prayer, abortion, evolution, and privatization of public education and social security? Do I want to fight over a nebulous plethora of social issues called family values that mask an endless stream of racism, sexism, homophobia, and try to keep judiciary appointments out of the hands of proto-humanoids? And in those sorts of retrograde and defensive battles who are going to be the allies?
That leaves the democrats by default because their list of targets presents the greater advantage to advance a progressive agenda in on-going battles against neo-liberal economic, social, and foreign policies. And I prefer the potential allies in these campaigns: unions, and a long list of progressive economic, social, environmental and consumer interest groups and their mixed agendas.
So, yes I want Gore in the white house and the democrats ruling congress. We are going to be fighting neo-liberal globalization polices that facilitate the depredations of a supercharged capitalism gone insane in either case, and so I really don't want the obscuring nonsense of the repugnats medieval social agenda and their draconian taste in judiciary appointments to get in the way.
Chuck Grimes