Posted on 05/02/2015 8:09:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes...though at times it seems that’s all the difference there is.
Indeed. The courts are now stacked with Obama appointees - which will make a huge difference for a long period of time.
And people like you are to blame for the problems we are having today that will last for many years to come. You’re retired, eh? Thanks a lot from those of us that are younger and will have to live with the consequences.
~ Larry Elder, The Ten Things You Can't Say In America (1998)
There are many reasons, but that is a huge one, you are right.
Just here in PA we had a GOP state legislature pass Voter ID and a GOP governor who signed it, but then the liberal judges stacked up in the courts sabotaged it. Hence, no Voter ID in PA. And that could have had huge benefits for future races here and maybe even impacted the presidential race in 2016 helping someone like Cruz get in the White House.
I can’t help but wonder whether the main article is written by a libertarian, and how many who have posted to this thread are libertarians. Libertarians are cultural Marxists, insurgents on FR, “no difference between the parties” has always been their tactic, the alternative: go libertarian.
I am as much against the gutless RINO’s as all FReepers. The solution, however, is not the libertarian route, but to support the Repubs that aren’t RINO. Granted, there is precious few of them to support.
One man’s opinion.
Don’t blame those who refused to hold their noses and vote for a baby-killing, pusher of homo marriage, creator of romneycare, pro-big government elitist.
Blame the GOP for trying to shove another RINO down our Conservative throats.
While there is overlap - individuals such as McCain and Jeb Bush would fit well into the Democratic party - there are differences such as regarding Israel. None of the Democrats who are or possibly might run for president come close to Cruz or to Walker.
When will you learn that voting for some third party candidate who doesn't any chance to get elected, just like a third party doesn't have a chance to take over.
Wake up
You may want to be the 1927 Yankees playing the old St. Louis Browns or the 1965 Packers playing the Lions, but you play on the day you play with the team you have against the other team as it is.
In other words, you may wonder why they aren't abolishing this, that, and the other thing, but that's not a realistic option, so they aren't doing it. You can try to change that, but don't be too optimistic about the prospects. Major change comes at most once in a generation.
I got about half way through the responses, and gave up. It seems that no one read the article. Sigh.....
This does not surprise me and I don’t blame you. When I posted the article, I expected that most will read the title and nothing else. Unfortunately it happens many times
Is There a Dime’s Worth of Difference between the Two Major Parties?
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I can’t imagine the Democrat Party producing a Governor Walker, or a Senator Cruz.
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See tagline
Only the fringes of the two parties are different, but pretty much the core overlap each other.
Or Corruptocrats. :-)
In principle yes, in practice, no.
Of course there is no difference between the 2 factions of the uniparty. Articles like this are authored in response to the growing realization outside the hallowed threads of FR that our electoral politics are a sham, a game of three card monte where we’ve seen the suckers...and they are us.
Yup. This is agitprop. Once the rubes stop believing in the electoral sham, it becomes much harder to control them. So they’re running pieces like this.
Really Norm. There is a two party system. Ya just gotta believe!
That made me laugh. Thanks.
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