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That's a fine, practical way of putting it.

I might further modify it to say it might be 2016, and the Democratic Party might no longer exist as it does today. If they were a business, you know, they'd have been sued for product liability and false advertising a long long time ago.

But I really am not as sanguine as many here about reform actually happening in the US. It's far too wealthy a place for the sort of crash we'd need to to weaken the ruling class hold on the place. And three generations of people who's civic education is, to say the least, pathetic...nope, I'm not hopeful.

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. Winston Churchill

by r------ on Thu Mar 27th, 2008 at 04:49:01 PM EST
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I'm with the 'never' vote.

I mean, a good share of Nader supported had this notion that the Bush disaster would set the democratic party and the country straight. Are we now going to talk about 'Nader units' (after 4 more years of Republican-led disaster, America will turn the corner)?

It's time to embrace incrementalism.

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Thu Mar 27th, 2008 at 09:10:06 PM EST
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You've got to start somewhere, and now and here is better than a future that is ultimately unpredictable.

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by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Thu Mar 27th, 2008 at 09:54:15 PM EST
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