as usual, med, you take cliche and spout it as if it were profundity. try looking beyond the simple minded rhetoric and you might find a rather unpleasant truth. that neither party has your best interests at heart and that the people are just a bunch of ignorant dupes to the rabid political animals we naively believe are representing us.

republicans have traditionally catered to business, giving just enough to string them along while using them to grow their own power base. democrats are playing the other side of the street. they hand out just enough to the people to keep us indebted to them and hoping for more. they play on the greed of the masses, just as their counterparts count on the greed of big business, to expand their power; never really making a difference, but giving the impression of benevolence. of course the ignorant masses will flock to the free handouts promised by these charlatans, even more so when times are hard.

the most glaring difference between these two methods is that business is far more efficient at taking advantage of the small bones thrown to it by government.

Being simple minded as you so profoundly point out, wouldn't I then be inclined to favor Democrats? Sometimes your supposed "High minded" approach to rhetoric is rather lame.

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