> Seems like one of the best 'features' of the American political system is
> that with the designed-in "checks and balances" nobody in Washington can
> actually get anything extreme or radical done in the four to eight years
> they have... there's just too many competing bureaucratic special fiefdoms,
> Congressional partisan gridlock, competing legions of well-funded
> special-interest groups and lobbyists to actually allow any kind of major
> well-considered and statesmanlike political change to be accomplished.
Isn't this a feature of all great democratic systems???
The US voters at least have a political choice still. Australia's major
left-wing party has moved so far right, and the right-wingers so far
left, that during the recent elections over here, the 'conservatives'
were in bed with the trade unions, & the 'socialists' were talking about
welfare changes that were effectively cuts to some categories...
davidt
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