Reply #73: Yep, here is the real issue [View All]

[Jose Diablo]

"too many people, perhaps even a majority, really have no representation by either party".

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Talk of class warfare has become, 'unfashionable'. We wouldn't want to upset the base of well healed semi-wealthy in their sitting rooms within the gated communities, now would we?

After all, the poor are poor because they deserve to be poor. It is part of the current christian dogma. The price of sin, is to be poor. The benefit of being 'righteous' is to be wealthy. Here here!!

It is not really a war, unless there is blood. All this talk of 'war' is just so much talk. Not to say, that it will not become a 'real' war. There is bad moon rising to be sure.

Maybe, just maybe, none of the candidates really represents the interests of a majority of Americans. How far from its base has the DNC gone? Does anybody really think that those that are primarily concerned with putting food on their family table, keeping a roof over their heads, keeping shoes on their children's feet are concerned with issues like gay rights, abortion, guns or drugs. Not that these issues are not important to small parts of America, but lets face it, most Americans have more 'pressing' needs, like "little Suzy is sick again, how will we pay the doctors bills?" The RW tells them, we will reduce your taxes, fair enough. The LW says we will have the government provide help, yet then doesn't. The government always seems to help the wealthy, always has, always will. Who really does good for a majority of Americans? Buzz, none of the above.

Who 'sacrifices' in a war? The intellectual left, reactionary right or the 'cannon' fodder trying to feed their families. Do any of the leaders, in either party, give a rats-ass for those that have to fight a war? It doesn't seem so to me. It looks like to me, they are all getting rich. Well, not all maybe. But those that truly do not like this war, well they have no real power.

There is a rift in America, to be sure. And that rift isn't between the left and right. It is and always has been between the haves and the have nots.

When, or if, the democratic party starts to realize where their bread is buttered, then it will start to win elections again.

Then again, who in power wants to really have those smelly poor people in their base?

Let the games begin.