Musicmystery
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It seems that the voters in the UK had their own tea party yesterday. Well they didn't---they had an ACTUAL third political party. The Tea Party is not--it's a group of mostly conservative Republicans who are going to vote conservative Republican. No change their in national politics or voting. If they have an impact, it will be within the Republican party, favoring conservatives over moderates. If they succeed, they will further move that party to the right, disaffecting more moderate Republicans and Independents--a strategy that may well backfire long term. They also have slogans rather than solutions. Governing is much more complicating than complaining. And Republicans have just as poor an economic record as anyone else, specifically by continually slashing revenue, funneling more resources to the wealthy while exacerbating economic problems elsewhere. Undoing past solutions with no plan for solving the problems those solutions did and do in fact ease is short sighted and foolish. People in the U.S. have been campaigning on the "stop socialism" slogan since the 1890s. It's hardly a new tact or a new movement. It's big money vs. labor, again. But you can't campaign on "more power to the wealthy and the corporations," so you have to invent other things to stir up people's resentment, even when fabricated. In November, Dems will lose seats in the House and Senate. No surprise. A change in party control? Possible, but not likely--a lot of voters are happy with health care reform in particular, and while have the country is shouting, the other half still disagrees. This will come down to jobs. While the economy is doing well again, employment as we approach the election will likely fuel voter choice.
< Message edited by Musicmystery -- 5/7/2010 4:09:33 AM >
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