Yes it is KK, and a lot has
developed other than Nader.
I fully expected to have a clear Dem nominee by now. For the first time in decades
their race is actually exciting. They're essentially the same candidate, but with opposite
approaches/personalities. Of course if either were elected the result would be the same. I think Mar.4 will be the
day of reckoning (Tex/OH). They are very different but equally important States.
Agree that Nader would pull
from any Dem candidate, but I'm not sure that he'll be on the ballot. The Dems are fighting him with all they
have.
I've been thinking about Bel's comments about our choices, and your theory of a "dynasty". I don't know
what we can realistically expect from our current electoral system. The rules almost automatically disqualify third
parties, and even if someone like Nader or Perot or even Paul were to become viable, the established majority within
the system just will not allow their entrenched position to be compromised. Its almost more bureaucratic than
political. I don't see it as a conspiracy so much as a creeping decline in America's spirit of individualism, in
the largest sense of the word.
Today's individualism is self centered and narcissistic. Instead of demanding
opportunity, and freedom from intervention, we demand entitlements. "I want to be free" has been replaced with "I
want" because "I deserve".
To the extent that any gov't is involved in your life the less free you are. The
whole purpose of our form of Gov't is to deny or restrict restraints on freedom. The creeping socialism resulting
from an uninformed and selfish electorate is the conspiracy not of tyrants, but of a deteriorating ideal.
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