I just got the Audible audio for Alice in Wonderland! It only cost $.49! Can you tell I am excited?
This will allow me to make more comparisons of our modern political system using Alice in Wonderland analogies.
My favorite I have used in the past is Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.
It tends to shock people when I point out the substantial lack of difference between the major parties. Conservatives are particularly irked when I point this out. But let's look at the issues.
The difference between the Republicans and Democrats on War is minor. Obama is proposing to spend immense amounts of money on "Defense." (I think the original term, the War Department, is more honest than the Department of Defense.) The Republicans complain that it is not enough.
Does either party really plan to end what Eisenhower called the "Military Industrial Complex"?
Be Serious.
There are even pro-war "Libertarians." But the Libertarians, and the 1% of the vote they get, in general offer more on this.
Wealth concentration is a huge problem. While the Democrats pay lip service to the idea, they really are no different than the Republicans. In fact the various "reforms" that have destroyed our financial system were done under their watch during the Clinton administration.
Libertarians do not seem to think it is a problem.
Most of the solutions offered are to my mind worse than the disease of wealth concentration. High marginal tax rates and inheritance taxes do not really affect the very wealthy, only their modestly wealthy competition.
What are my solutions...solutions I acknowledge will never be done short of some sort of economic disaster.
Declare victory in our various wars and bring the soldiers home. Why in the world does the US still have troops in Europe to fight the Soviet Union? We are coming up on the 30th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union.
I would limit the number of employees that anyone can employ to 50,000. Apple seems to do fine with a little more than that. This might be hard on Walmart with 2 million employees, but that endears me to the proposal.
Will anything happen on either of these issues?
Don't make me laugh.
The parties will continue to fight over things, like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum over their rattle. One may win, but in the fight the rattle may be destroyed.
Stay far, far away as you are the politician's oyster, ready to be eaten.