It's been a one party system for some time now hasn't it?

[shadowknows69]

Now they're so sure they have all the pieces in place for checkmate that they barely even try to hide it anymore.

[PDJane]

1. Since, in fact, the Kennedy assassination.

[WT Fuheck]

2. since Nov 1963,

but comments like that used to get people tombstoned at DU...

[shadowknows69]

4. I try not to worry about being tombstoned, but I have to speak my mind.

[WT Fuheck]

6. thanks for doing so.

It's increasingly idiotic to remain a rah rah loyalist when faced with the treachery of recent times.

[boppers]

11. A political king-making, dynasty of wealth changed it.... how?

JFK wasn't exactly anti-corporate wealth, or a believer in universal social equality.

He was a Kennedy, for Pete's sake.

[WT Fuheck]

15. the MIC hated him.

The "national security" cabal hated him.

The proto-neocons hated him.

He left the generals holding their war hardons at the Bay of Pigs and during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was threatening to do the same in Viet Nam, where his early enthusiasm showed clear signs of waning. His brother Bobby was nosing around in illegal conspiracies the oligarchs didn't want him looking into.

If he hadn't been wealthy, he'd never have been able to run in the first place.

[Ildem09]

3. To fix this

we need two things

1) Ordinal balloting with transferable vote

2) a complete ban on private campaign contributions or any kind not from a person or corporation everyone pays 3 bucks on their taxes and thats how its funded,

those are the only ways i see to enact real change

[endless october]

5. in my opinion, yes.

[Oregone]

7. There is always the party of In Feces, On Couch Masturbating

Its growing in popularity at the moment. Hey, as George Carlin somewhat said, at least when they are done masturbating they actually get off (as opposed to the ballot casters).

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. yes it has

[lunatica]

9. Well, if you mean the DLC and the Republicans look like one party

Yes. But the teabaggers are splintering off from the Republicans and the progressives are now feeling dismissed and will probably start splintering off too. So it looks more like three parties, or at least three completely different ideologies are forming. The Religious Extreme Right, the Rich Right merging with the Rich DLC (which includes the Blue Dog Democrats), and the Liberal Progressives.

Perhaps in the next Congressional elections some Progressives will run against the Blue Dog Democrats and we won't lose those seats to Republicans.

[boppers]

10. Since 1787.

Those with conventional power have always had more political power than those without.

It's kind of part of the country, always has been.

[chill_wind]

12. One of our DUers put it rather well a short time back

I thought: All the distinction anymore of claiming your car is a Ford or a Mercury.

[Raine]

13. Yup and now they don't even care that

we know since the takeover is complete. :-(

[bananas]

14. Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum

Republicrats
etc.