Thursday, March 8, 2012

Imagine an America with No Political Parties (It's Easy: We're Almost There)



An interesting, and somewhat clarifying, discussion on the Dylan Ratigan show yesterday about how far the country has veered from any kind of useful dialogue. I made the point that the emergence of the Tea Party on the Right and Occupy Wall Street on the Left is evidence of the same phenomenon: neither party leadership is expressing the concerns of its base any longer, or even understands them. Nominally the country still has two political parties, but they might as well be representing Albanians as Americans....  

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