The Dangers of One Party Rule 569
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.'"
Re:My two discussion questions (Score:3, Informative)
This, of course, is just as trollish as the "Bush is Hitler" trolls...
Neither of us are going to be prevented from expressing our views.
You aren't paying attention and/or your media is being
Please don't confuse this guy with the "left." (Score:3, Informative)
In response to your comments, I'm sure you're aware that calling John Kerry a "slave to France" is equally as inane as calling Bush Hitler.
Sigh.... I don't know why the hell I expect intelligent political discussion on slashdot anyway....
Re:My two discussion questions (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Utter Crap...... (Score:3, Informative)
Because it takes an awful lot of work and money to get together yet another party.
If you aren't aware of them, there are a slew [politics1.com] of other parties that you can join.
Re:We Already Have It (Score:2, Informative)
We were never going to stay with Kyoto, and gladly so. It is heavy-handed, unfair, and according to Clinton's aides after the fact would have been too costly to adhere to. Bush had to do what he had to do to protect America. You guys bitch about jobs and the economy? If we signed Kyoto you'd be moving to India.
We've gutted federal water quality standards regarding arsenic and heavy metal contamination.
A recent study by California-Berkeley found that there is no connection between the current allowable Arsenic levels in drinking water and bladder cancer. The level set by Clinton in the twilight hours of his administration were artificially low and overpoliticized. It's junk science and the left is eating it up.
We cut funding to international family-planning organizations that conduct abortion counseling.
Heaven forbid our tax dollars stay in the US. Heaven forbid our tax dollars aren't spent promoting something that a majority of Americans abhor. This is the difference between the Left and the Right (and Libertarians). You almost sound like these other countries are entitled to our money. Well I for one would like to keep my own money and give it where I see fit. You would rather the government decides for everyone else.
We're proposing new road-building into Wilderness Areas.
Please don't visit any state parks, then. Consistency, remember. Or drive to your house, which was once a wilderness area.
We've made it much more difficult to declare certain types of bankruptcy.
I don't know much about these details, but right off the top of my head I think declaring bankruptcy should be difficult. It should be a last resort. You do know that bankruptcy hurts the economy, right? It's a bad thing.
We've hobbled basic stem-cell research, in the name of "pro-life" activism.
What a whopper! FYI, Bush approved federal funding for stem cell research. He didn't "hobble" it. There was no federal funding for stem cell research before Bush came into office, so how this "hobbles" research, I'll never know.
A burro can ask more questions than a wise man can answer
Re:My two discussion questions (Score:3, Informative)