I must admit I am one of thse people who is a solid Democrat because I haven't had an opportunity to vote for a Republican I believed wouldn't cause more problems than they solved. (Except once, and I turned out to be so very wrong.) So I am an anti-Republican, and, since I believe that the purpose of a third party in this political structure can never be more than that of a spoiler (except under very limited circumstances that have occurred maybe 2 or 3 times in our history) that makes me a Democrat.
I'm with Moskie on the petty problems with the Democrats: Harvey Waxman, Carol Mosley Brown, The Maryland State Legislature. Democratic legislaters need to get it though their heads that they are not our Mommies.
I think Affirmative action worked, but now needs to be modified so that it moves gradually from a racial base to an economic one. Frankly, I think it ught to stick around for a while longer just to counter the whole reparations bullshit, then maybe phase to an economic basis.
Scipio has the environmental reasoning I have been tring to get to for quite a while. Ditto healthcare. Prevention costs less than repair almost every time. It just makes good business sense.
Nuff for now.
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