Tuesday, January 20, 2004
One-Party State
I'm not going to write much about politics much, mainly because I mostly find the topic depressing. This article certainly does not help matters but I found it interesting.
Of course I also have the feeling that it really doesn't matter anyway, that the two parties are nearly the same anyway owing so much to powerful influences...OK enough.
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America has had periods of single-party dominance before. It happened under FDR's New Deal, in the Republican 1920s and in the early 19th-century "Era of Good Feeling." But if President Bush is re-elected, we will be close to a tipping point of fundamental change in the political system itself. The United States could become a nation in which the dominant party rules for a prolonged period, marginalizes a token opposition and is extremely difficult to dislodge because democracy itself is rigged. This would be unprecedented in U.S. history.
In past single-party eras, the majority party earned its preeminence with broad popular support. Today the electorate remains closely divided, and actually prefers more Democratic policy positions than Republican ones. Yet the drift toward an engineered one-party Republican state has aroused little press scrutiny or widespread popular protest.
Of course I also have the feeling that it really doesn't matter anyway, that the two parties are nearly the same anyway owing so much to powerful influences...OK enough.
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