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Originally Posted by Lougotzz
...If they would get rid of their ultra left wing nuts. Unfortunately that is the majority of them today. ....
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I'm with Lou on this one. The Democrats formerly represented the middle class America, the working class in particular. At some point their ranks swelled with left wing extremeists, environmentalists, socialists, para-socialists, bohemians, flakes and other ne'er-do-wells. In one aspect it's similar to Granola cereal -- take out the flakes and you're still left with the fruits and nuts. Since they've become too distracted with fringe elements and the smaller, noisier minorities, they're too distracted to represent the core of the working class -- you & I. Therefore I submit that we are no longer directly represented in the government, only indirectly through voting out whom we
don't like.
Politicians, Democrats in particular, are well known to fake right and break left. They may be of the opinion that we're ready for really punishing gun control, and may institute it anyway after 2008. They know as long as the Republicans aren't hard core pro-gun, we don't have anywhere to turn in a bicameral (two party) system. Sure, we can clean 'em out in the next election cycle, but it'll be business as usual with the Republicans and we'll soon tire of that, assuming we've forgotten the Iraq debacle by then. Plus, the tendency for power to corrupt isn't limited to just the Republicans.
Putting blind faith in the heir-apparent Democratic party on the eve of a full government takeover would be misplaced faith, to say the least.