Cynth: He's saying there's a corporatist, authoritarian Republican party and an authoritarian, corporatist Democratic party; Jack Johnson and John Jackson, if you will, each with eerily similar underlying ideologies and each falsely representing a wide spectrum which is actually very narrow. Which is the party of ending wiretapping? Which is the party of campaign finance reform? Which is the party of ending the war in Afghanistan? Which is the party of ending or limiting corporate personhood? Which is the party of raising taxes on the rich? Which is the party of not torturing?
Noam Chomsky once wrote:
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The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
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Anyone outside of this spectrum of acceptable opinion, which exists between the two parties in our two-party system, would appear to be extremist or "fringe".