'Now, try this fun little experiment, Mr. Keene: Imagine Al Gore were president right now'

Will these sad little puppies EVER get over it? Coulda, shoulda, woulda, whatever...HE LOST. Move on, dot org!!!1

Gore didn't lose. He actually became president, but everyone is confused by the face transplant.

Republicans and Democrats are interchangable for all practicle purposes. Both sides agree that people are a means to end, and they use and treat people as such.

Now, now... Sure, those withered arguments that Gore should've actually won are quite stale and inspires anger in me that these liberal fucktards can't deal with a reality that doesn't fit their conception of what the world should<> be. I'm decidedly left-leaning, but this particular fixation of certain lefties paints them as an irrational fringe group that is incapable of rational argument and insists on making itself irrelevant.
However, that wasn't really the point in this article; it was just pointing out the truism that partisans are... well, partisan; and if Gore had done the same things Bush has done, there'd be a hellstorm from the right side of aisle.

Umm.... whoops...

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REPUBLICANS == DEMOCRATS
Two sides of the same coin.

There's another tired argument that could be put to rest...

Werd.

Then please, put it to rest ... illustrate the significant differences ... show us all how the dems and reps differ on taxation, redistribution of wealth, property tights, individual rights, etc... and I mean differ in how they act, not on what they claim.

yeah whatever, carry on with your perpetual bi-partisan box-like thinking. there should more than two politcal parties in power, you guys are just sucked into the game that keeps real issues from being solved.

mineralGod: asserting that Republicans and Democrats are not identical is not the same as asserting that they should be the only two teams in town.

Loki: Got some real work to take care of first, but will respond at length in the forums.

I'll quote this article : Time to Forget About Figureheads:

"A few weeks ago I was talking to a left-winger who had attended several of these anti-war marches. I was trying to explain to her that George Bush was just a figurehead and if we are to make any visible difference then we need to focus on the real powerbrokers. She responded by saying, ‘you’re probably right, but it’s fun to make jokes about George Bush’. From that throwaway dismissal we can understand the failings of the left. They pose no threat to the New World Order because they are largely uninformed, attract little credibility by their own behaviour (public sick protests for example), and are obsessed by trying to bring down paper tigers that the establishment deliberately distract them with. Myopic liberals are better off staying at home because they don’t realize that it takes intelligence and not sheer numbers to activate political power."

I'm assuming that this quote is meant to refute me in some way...?

I don't disagree at all with that quote -- it's refering to exactly the kind of irrational thinking among many lefties that I deride in my first comment on this thread.

I think their might be some misunderstanding. My point is that bi-partisan-ism is what is keeping the real issues from being solved or given any attention. This neverending conflict between Dems and Reps is what takes away the focus. People to focus on issues rather than figureheads. I think I misunderstood your posts??