"Seattle's Socialist City Councilor Offers Radical Response to Obama Speech"

[socialist_n_TN]

146. IF, by your last paragraph, you mean.......

the recent stirrings of a potential split in the Republican ranks between the Tea Partiers and the establishment Republicans, I too hope it happens, but I'm sure for different reasons.

If the Republicans split into two parties, the Democrats won't be far behind. The only reasons Dems have held together up till now is because of the threat of a united Republican Party takeover of government. If the Reps DO split, there will go the primary reason for current Democrats who DON'T support the neo-liberal economic agenda (or the "moderate, Republican policies of the 80s&quot to stay in the Democratic Party.

You ought to support this split when and if the Republicans split first. You would get rid of that pesky "perfectionist" wing of the Democratic Party and can go ahead and support what you want without somebody carping about it from the left. Shoot, you can even be "bi-partisan" and join up with the establishment Republicans to keep the status quo the same without intra-party criticism. And the rest of the country would wind up with 4 political parties that will more closely represent what we believe.

IMO, having 4 political parties might even bring in that other half of the voting age population that doesn't even bother to register.