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Originally posted by Strange Famous
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.
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I don't buy into the worker revolution theories you subscribe to so there's no real point in getting into that debate as neither of our viewpoints will be altered in any significant way by the arguments of the other.
I think you misread the American public. In general they do not stray far from their religious and social foundations. There were a great many people outraged by the Janet Jackson episode and there are several here on TFP (and, overall, we are a most liberal and open minded cross section of world society). Personally I could care less about it, but everyone has a right to voice their opinion.
While most Americans believe in some level of help for those less fortunate, there is little support for widespread programs to "equalize" wealth across the spectrum of citizens.