An analogy can be made to two rival gangs offering "protection" from each other. People will pay for "protection" only if they believe that they face greater danger from a rival gang. If they do not believe that the threat is real, they will see no reason to pay for "protection." That requires the gangsters to put up a show to demonstrate that the threat is real.
That explains the seemingly preposterous statements made by politicos and their media lackeys - their sole purpose is to scare supporters that they are imminent danger and thus need "protection" from either party.
It seems that the Brits finally saw through this two-party scam and may have a thirtd alternative.
Wojtek
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:40 PM, brad <babscritique at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I would kinda agree with Wojtek on this and have to disagree with
> Julio, even though he makes some interesting points.
>
> Woj is right about the yin and yang of the DP/RP relationship. Perhaps,
> and
> this is just kind of thinking out loud here, the whole TP movement is due
> to
> the relative weakness of this DP/RP relationship as Obama moves rightward
> and seemed to be blunting some of the normal binary between them- Bush's
> undermining of the RP and the crisis helped alot too. The TP and the media
> portrial of it, would seem by this to be trying to reconstruct this binary
> between the DP/RP and push folks back 'home' during uncertain times. It
> serves to create disunity and individualization across the working class.
>
>
> Brad
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