Theresa Said:

Am I the only person who thinks Democrats vs. Republicans is like Coke vs. Pepsi?

We Answered:

No, you are not.

It seems more and more obvious that Wall Street's plutocrats are determined to prevent campaign finance reform or changes in the status quo of any kind so that they can firmly distract us from the state of the union:

?The US elections: In whose interest is the campaign for “bipartisan unity”??
By Barry Grey
11 January 2008

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan200…

?That article shows that there are numerous overlapping links between Democrats and Republicans that have little to do with ideologies and a lot to do with corporate panhandling.?

...What is an election about—if it is anything more than an empty ritual—if not the airing of political differences and the advancement of competing programs?

It is all the more ludicrous in a country where ?political discussion is suppressed as in no other “democracy”? and ?the substantive differences between the two officially sanctioned parties are increasingly negligible.? The Democratic 110th Congress is a testament to the fundamental unity of the two parties on all issues—war, the further enrichment of the financial aristocracy, the assault on democratic rights—that are critical to the American ruling elite.

???The demand for bipartisan unity serves to obscure the objective reality of a society that is riven by class and social divisions. ?The agents of Wall Street who preach the gospel of “unity” have good reason to suppress any genuine political discussion. They preside over a country where the concentration of wealth has reached unprecedented levels,? with the top 1 percent of families owning 40 percent of the nation’s net worth. And the economic disparities continue to grow.???


Obama is a conventional bourgeois politician, dependent, like his rivals, on lavish financial support from corporate interests and the wealthy. ?He is not the product of any sort of genuine movement from below in American society, but rather the latest in a long line of demagogues employed to foster illusions that the big business-controlled political system can serve the interests of ordinary people.?

Working people have absolutely no stake in the outcome of the struggle between Obama and Clinton for the Democratic nomination. .... The Democratic Party, no less than the Republican Party, is an instrument of the financial elite that monopolizes the wealth and dominates the political life of the country.????

With unemployment sharply rising, food and gasoline prices soaring and home foreclosures at a record high and expected to hit another 2 million households over the next year, ?the ruling elite fears that a sharply contested and protracted election process could become a focus for rising social discontent.? It wants, in the name of “unity,” to suppress any real discussion of the social crisis.????

...the American oligarchy is seeking to lay down the law—to delegitimize any critique of the establishment political consensus behind militarism and imperialism, and proscribe any challenge to the ever-greater concentration of wealth at the very top of American society.

The campaign for bipartisanship thus has a distinctly antidemocratic and sinister aspect. It is an effort to discipline the political squabbling within the US ruling elite in order to face a far greater danger: an eruption of social conflict produced by the increasingly desperate conditions facing the vast majority of the American people.

????http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jan200…

Leroy Said:

REPUBLICANS VS. DEMOCRATS?

We Answered:

From the horses' mouths.
I could give you my own answer like the "guy from two years ago" or i could give you the site like you asked.

This is the republican party's Official Platform: http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/
This is the democrat official party platform: (Not their most recent one, though) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showplatf…

"i need info on social security, taxes,education,iraq,stem cell research,gay rights/marriage/civilunion,abortion, federal min. wages, labor unions, gun laws, environmental issues(offshore oil drilling), and health insurance" I got that for you in my two sites, both with easy to read format

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Armando Said:

Why do Americans Take the "football approach" to politcs (Democrats vs Republicans,and forget the main issue!)

We Answered:

No its your brain. Its the belief systems that create the divisiveness. Americans have always taken sides based on what they believe. Their party affiliation is a result of those beliefs not the other way around.