Re: Bush: one of the worst disasters to hit the U.S.

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:24:47 GMT, richard mullens
<mullensdeletethis@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>John Larkin wrote:
>
>> The US electorate is almost evenly split. That makes sense in a system
>> like ours, where minority parties have zip influence, unlike a
>> parliamentary system.
>>
>> So the parties servo their positions such that the split is almost
>> even. And the result is that there's not a huge substantive difference
>> in people or policies. Sure, one side gets the tort lawyers, and the
>> other gets the gun owners, but that stuff balances out.
>>
>> So we have a bell-shaped curve, and right down the middle there's a
>> dotted line drawn, and we label the sides "Democrat" (the left side,
>> naturally) and "Republican". Most of the mass is in the middle, near
>> the line, and for most of that mass the choice to be in one party or
>> the other is a relatively close one. It's a fact that most people in
>> the USA are *not* rabidly partisan, but they're the quiet ones.
>>
>
>Don't you get a sense perhaps that the populace has become polarised - and that those to the right have moved further right and
>those to the left further left ?
>
>Certainly, it seems that people are taking harder positions.

Now WHERE would you get such an idea ?:-)

Personally I'm tiring of the game. I'll be quiet until Win says
something outrageous again ;-)

Here, in Phoenix, we've already held a "job fair" for the Katrina
survivors, hired many, and quite a few have announced that they're not
going back to Louisiana.

...Jim Thompson
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