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All for one and one for all

October 11, 2008 - 8:10 am - by Richard Fernandez
Pascal
2008-10-11 10:02:46

Let me point to parallel operations by many of the same players. Let us defend our freedoms from (what my opposite on the last few threads has aptly labeled) the gamed political system.

Bipartisanship is the facade, an appearance of comity, whereby the representatives get along with each other far better than with dissidents within their own parties. Whereby I have stung with far more venom from my “representative” in requesting reforms than he ever displays when “fighting” the Left. Thus, like many of the disgusted around the nation, I see the GOP leadership both taking a dive and fragging my champions.

So in some ways what you have just proposed supports Mika’s suggestion for a multiparty instead of our two party system. As Konyok and others pointed out to Mika, the problem is the members in the institutions who’ve learned how to game it, not necessarily the institutions themselves. For certainly, the end product of all those parliamentary systems has not made those nations stronger than ours. There splinter parties may extort a government’s dissolution at any moment, while here they have to wait 2 or 4 years.

Back to the topic. All for one and one for all is what our MSM/Ministry of Information/MinInfo has been pressuring for with its hammering the GOP for its lack of bipartisanship. Meanwhile the old snakes at the head of the GOP spews venom at their own partisans while displaying statesman like comity when faced with seeming insanity by members of the other party.

I cannot be the only person here to have witnessed this. So why don’t more of you force the issue out into the open? It’s time to force at least one party back into forming a true opposition against the other.