Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site grkermit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!grkermit!larry From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Democrats vs. Republicans Message-ID: <536@grkermit.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 14:11:42 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermit.536 Posted: Wed Aug 3 14:11:42 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Aug-83 20:32:07 EDT References: <116@ccieng5.UUCP> Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 46 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. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 {linus decvax}!genrad!grkermit!larry (ARPA) rms.g.lkk@mit-ai