On Feb 15, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Wojtek S wrote:
> political parties react to the power balance - if that balance tips in
> some way, they will tend follow the tilt rather than try to
> counterbalance
> it. So DP works the way it does...
If Wojtek would stop pretending to be such an ignoramous about both economics and politics he would let himself recognize that, in the USA (and not just the USA!) the "power balance" (absent a direct revolutionary threat) is nothing at all but the money balance--and that the DP works the way it does because it, just as much as the RP, is a bought-and-paid-for slave of the rich. To put it gently, as Jeffrey Sachs does, the two "are not totally indistinguishable."
Who pays the piper calls the tune.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos