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From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
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Subject: Re: Democrats vs. Republicans
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Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 14:11:42 EDT
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From: Morgoth@ccieng5.UUCP (Morgoth)
Democrats, or at least a majority of them, favor a large central (federal)
government, that spends lots of money and makes 'everyone happy'. Clearly
democrats are therefore nothing more than overblown aristocrats interested
in concentrating power into the hands of the few, as opposed to the 'limited
government' and deregulation loved by republicans.

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I posted an article last month asking for differences between democrats
and republicans, I don't remember getting a response.  

My thesis is that the median of the two parties are actually very close
together.  The democrats will always be very slightly to the left of
the national consensus, while the republicans will be slightly to the
right.  There is no criterium that I can think of that allows you to
differentiate between dems. and reps.

If you can think of one, test it out on the following list:

RONALD DELLUMS				LOWELL WIEKER

JOHN STENNIS				JESSE HELMS

JIM WRIGHT					HOWARD BAKER

The fact is that on the international political spectrum, both parties
agree on just about everything.  Both support:

CAPITALISM
THE MONROE DOCTRINE
NATO
LIMITED ECONOMIC PLANNING
AMERICA-IS-THE-GREATEST-COUNTRY-IN-THE-WORLD-CONCEPT
CIVIL RIGHTS FOR MINORITIES
A 'SAFETY NET'
ECONOMIC GROWTH


Once again, I challenge anyone to provide an issue on which the two
parties have consistenly disagreed on for the past 20 years.

-- 
Larry Kolodney 
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