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I personally think that the Democratic Party is dead. I don't know if there will be formal rites after the coming election but it is definitely coming and if they do not wake up soon they will be past the point of no return. The attempts to make Gore/Leiberman appear presidential was really an exercise in futility and their attempts to come up with a viable candidate for 2004 are laughable. There is a point in which "Liberal" isn't liberal at all - it has reached the point of 'somewhere out there'. I noticed a poll taken in the past few days in which a large number of people who claimed to be Democrats were asked about the Democratic candidates - and could not name any of them.
We live under a government whose founders did not anticipate two parties - in fact - most of the original planners of our government most favored an aristocracy - This is still evident in the electoral college. I need not tell you about history but our forefathers did not trust the common man. They were willing to let him vote for members of the House and nothing more - The common man really had nothing directly to do with government other than this. Things have changed - political parties came along very quickly and provisions had to be made to account for this. Not saying that our forefathers were right about everything but they weren't totally wrong either. Politics have gotten out of hand because of political parties - those tremendous wastes of resource that we call pork-barrel politics are the direct result of the party system. Somewhere in the middle there is common ground - the fringes of both political parties are detrimental to everyone in this country with the exception of those out there on the edge.
Do we need to go back to the middle and start over?
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