ChoppinBroccoli
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:04 AM
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My "It's A Wonderful Life" Moment |
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Call me crazy. Call me a "homer." Call me an ideologue. Call me politically naive. Call me what you will. But I was sitting around the other day, and I had an "It's A Wonderful Life" moment. I tried to imagine what this country would be like right now if there were no Republican Party. Instinctively, my mind immediately leapt to the conclusion that one-party rule is always bad, and leads to corruption and all sorts of other bad things, and that's probably true over a period of time. But I just couldn't help thinking about things in the short term. And the conclusion I came to was that I couldn't think of one, single, solitary way that this country wouldn't be 100% better off if the Republican Party didn't exist.
Now, I know there are more level-headed people out there who will immediately chime in with things like, "If there were no Republican Party, all the idiots and fanatics and nut-jobs would form something even worse," but in my imaginary little world, I was imagining a country where there WERE no idiots, fanatics, or nut-jobs. Every office in the country was manned by duly elected representatives of a left-leaning country. And honestly, I'll say it again, I couldn't imagine a scenario where things weren't 100% better all the way around. On not one issue did I see any downside. And if we all woke up tomorrow to find that every office in the country was filled by Democrats, I can't imagine a scenario where there wouldn't be NOTICEABLE improvement almost IMMEDIATELY.
I guess what I'm saying is, if I were standing on that bridge, I'd have an awfully hard time telling Boner and all his cronies not to jump.
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:05 AM
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1. I agree with you. I think we would be better off if evil did not exist. k&r n/t |
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:09 AM
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2. Either one party, or three+ parties, would be better than two. |
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The politics and psychology of two parties makes for lots of bickering with very little forward movement.
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:09 AM
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republicans are just a symptom, not the cause of most of our problems. The democratic party has been dragged far enough to the right that we would hardy notice their (republicans) disappearance.:shrug:
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:11 AM
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4. Currrently, I'd agree, but no Republican Party = no Abe Lincoln |
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And while others may have stepped up to try to hold the Union together we could spin that Capra thing in a manner that would leave us with at least 2 Americas, one or both of which might have spent another 100 years with an even worse civil rights record.
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Tue Dec-21-10 11:29 AM
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9. I am firmly in the camp of thinking that things would be much better if the south had been allowed |
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to leave. Of course, the south would have fought against the allies in WWII, but that could have been dealt with.
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:12 AM
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5. Crazy. "Homer". Ideologue. Politically naive. What you will. |
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:17 AM
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6. I share your sentiments |
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:27 AM
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7. Lot of us here, padner |
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Tue Dec-21-10 10:45 AM
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that's why we come to these discussion boards, to share ideas and....oh, you mean that other 'thing'.
Never mind.:blush:
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Tue Dec-21-10 12:26 PM
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10. And here I thought you were going to talk about Zuzu's petals. nt |
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Tue Dec-21-10 01:14 PM
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11. A vacuum is going to be filled. |
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It's not the absence of the Republican Party that we need; political parties are not static. They, too, change over time. It's the abolishing of the current system. Election reform that includes 100% public financing, equal, and equally neutral, media coverage, equal talk time and all candidates answering all questions in debates, and some form of IRV.
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