The Dangers of One Party Rule

Marxist Hacker 42 writes "Now that the Politics section is up and running, I can submit this story. Back in February, The American Prospect ran a speculative article on The Danger of NeoConservative One Party Rule. A quote: 'Benjamin Franklin, leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, was asked by a bystander what kind of government the Founders had bestowed. "A republic," he famously replied, "if you can keep it." There have been moments in American history when we kept our republic only by the slenderest of margins. This year is one of those times.'"

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I pine for the day..

[Slime-dogg]

that /. can get back to the "News for nerds" part. This bitching and vote-mongering is hardly "stuff that matters." Our country is hardly different from where it was four years ago, except that we have an economy that has a firmer foundation than an extremely volatile bubble (which was put firmly into place by the economic policies of the Clinton era). We're just as arrogant as ever, we're just as whiny, and we still demand everything while giving nothing. It hasn't changed a bit.

So tell me. Why does it matter who we vote for? The American culture isn't going to change at all. We're still going to be just as damn greedy as we used to be. We won't be humanitarian much at all... just like we weren't really under Clinton.

The problem isn't the leaders that we elect, even though they are the easiest to blame. The problem is ourselves, and our reluctance to do anything about it.