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[QUOTE="Headbanging_Man:1193064"]All of those planks are pretty much part of the Democratic Party platform as well. The Dennis Kucinich's and (formerly) Cynthia McKinney's of that party are merely tokens to sate the liberal/progressive base, while the Obama/Clinton/Biden/Reid consensus is much more Reagan than Roosevelt. On an objective policy-analysis basis, Barack Obama makes Richard Nixon look like Huey Long in comparison. Obama's actions have supported every policy I listed above, though it's true that he's not as enthusiastic as the Republicans are about corporate tax-breaks and environmental deregulation. He's on board with the general program though. I get the feeling that Ron Paul is kept around as a token as well, to keep paleoconservatives and Libertarians in the Republican fold. I would hold out a lot more hope for our electoral system if Paul was capable of getting the GOP nomination for Pres. or VP, but his current limited career (compared to how popular he is amongst self-identified "conservatives") is pretty much rock-solid proof that the RNC, by design, is out to co-opt and quash conservative populism (just as the DNC does with progressive populism). As long as big money can push candidates and ideas down to the back burner (or up to the front), national elections are a kabuki act to enforce the illusion that voting really offers people a voice in the system. It's a Coke/Pepsi "republic" and people who ask for juice are simply not tallied in the end.[/QUOTE]
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