[Ehlgamxf]

Give me a break. A monopoly? That's foolish. Really, Ben. I'm serious.


There has never been a section of time where the country's domestic habits changed more. Not a world war, not the cold war, nothing. I don't care what anyone, including Cheney says, you don't know what you would do until and if you're faced wth it.

[Zjohkrbi]

Che, why don't you give me the benefit of the doubt? I know Ben, I talk to Ben, you should know something.

[emingeRek]

You really are clueless.

[cheesypeetyz]

NOTE: I am using the terms 'right' and 'left' while acknowledging their silliness and the media process that has leached them of meaning...

There is no US party that is a home for the fiscally "conservative", yet socially "liberal."

Now the libertarians I dismiss because a) They ignore history. They actually had the 'libertarian utopia' of huge growth and self-regulated markets. It was called the 19th Century. b) There IS such a thing as market failure, and unless you're a dumbassed Ayn Rand follower we do have a responsibility to some degree to be our 'brother's keepers', if for no other reason than to stop our brothers from rioting and burning down our houses.

The democrats, as I see them, are basically the 'anti-racism' party these days. It's the one thing that ties them all together and the subtext behind their spending. It's really all they agree on and the large rambling intellectual structure of 'anti-racism stuff' is in effect their entire ideology.

The Republicans are the Christian party, at least they sell themselves that way. Fundie-ism colours everything they do.

So where do Yanks go when they want a party that likes all that fun social stuff like gays and drugs, but doesn't want the government 'stealing bread from the children's mouths' to pay for it all?

I don't really know too much about it, but I guess the old Reform party was the closest thing.