Sometimes you can feel really lonely outside the two-party duopoly...

... because the arguments between different wings of the Demopublican Party are so ... incestuous.br /br /Like when a href="http://www.delawareliberal.net/2009/07/01/the-looking-glass/"Democratic bloggers OK with the idea of mass arrests, trials and executions for political dissenting opinions/a pat themselves on the back for a href="http://www.delawareliberal.net/2009/07/02/david-anderson-is-crazy-and-i-love-it/"calling Republican bloggers crazy who believe God told them that abortion and homosexuality are mortal sins and therefore should be legislated out of existence/a.br /br /Yeah, serious policy stuff like that, designed to instill public confidence.br /br /But, just occasionally, you find something likea href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/07/02/npr/index.html" Glenn Greenwald/a discussing media culpability in keeping this whole charade running [the specific case is the current, bizarre NPR refusal to use the word itorture/i anymore, but the context could be health care, climate change, bail-outs, or terrorism]:br /br /blockquotespan style="font-style:italic;"There are two sides and only two sides to every "debate" -- the Beltway Democratic establishment and the Beltway Republican establishment. If those two sides agree on X, then X is deemed true, no matter how false it actually is. If one side disputes X, then X cannot be asserted as fact, no matter how indisputably true it is. The mere fact that another country's behavior is described as X doesn't mean that this is how identical behavior by the U.S. should be described. They do everything except investigate and state what is true. In their view, that -- stating what is and is not true -- is not their role./span/blockquotebr /br /Yeah: the two parties have nothing in common--except the shell game that keeps them in power while the military industrial complex, giant corporations, and blood-sucking bureaucrats all prosper.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7893272060787897238-5760426069194379441?l=delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com'//div

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