Remind me who won in the election, the Republicrats or the Democans?
I think the most insidious thing about the last fifty years of American politics is the pretense that there is any significant difference between the two major political parties.
Let’s play Name the President:
– Pre-appointment, his 11 cabinet officers averaged a yearly income of $211K.
– His formulated tax cuts dropped the effective corporate tax rate to 13%. Eighty-five percent of his tax breaks accrued to the upper half of the income scale. Ninety percent of a capital gains tax cut benefited the top 1% of the nation.
– New York Times quote, “No president in living memory has courted big business as ardently…”
Who did you guess? Reagan? Bush (the Elder)? Dubya? Try Jimmy Carter.
I’m sorry, I just can’t work up a belief that the country would be significantly different if Gore was in the Oval Office today. I think we’ve been suckered into picking between the political equivalents of Coke and Pepsi as if we were making some meaningful choice. There’s just no room afforded in the political forums for discussion of legitimate alternatives.