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Originally posted by onetime2
The points of contention you list are the ideological differences that you care about, not what the voters of America care about. You will never see a widespread movement to have the government take over industry.
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Without wishing to be pedantic, have you ever heard of The February revolution? The General Strike? The Paris Commune?
Both parties basically believe in and stand for social capitalism - it is just a question of the iron fist in the silk glove (Democrats) or just the iron fist (Republicans)
Abortion is never going to be outlawd in America under even of the present parties regimes, there will always be a welfare system (with slightly more or less funding), there will always be heavy spending on the military.
To me, the whole myth of America as this hugely conservative and country is without foundation. A petty, but recent example, Janet Jackson - while the church and media and right wing interest groups go into fits of indignant rage at the idea of people seeing a woman's bare breast - does anyone actually know of anyone, personally, who found it terribly offensive? or who even cared? The real America is and always has been a radical country, and for so long Americans have been misrepresented by politicians radically to the Right of them. Even Utswo, someone who is as staunchly republican as could be imagined, seems to me to be to the Left of both major parties on most social issues.