Phatscotty wrote:What do you think about the Tea Party having a chance to penetrate the IDRP? I know some people will sell out, and some people are hack-plants, but now there are a million little Ron Pauls.
There is zero chance of that happening through ballot-box politics.
Once the Democrat Party succeeded in permanently eradicating the People's Party and the Republican Party succeeded in permanently eradicating the Silver Republican Party a decision was made that the threat of continued national fracture through the turbulence wrought by the theretofore successful American third party movement was too great a risk.
The IDRP has spent the last 100 years solidifying their grip on power.
That said, for Americans,
there actually are some benefits of the one-party IDRP system. Part of the global political and military strength the U.S. enjoys is not simply through force of numbers. If the U.S. were not able to maintain a 90% absolute status quo in foreign affairs from presidency to presidency it would enjoy only a fraction of the world influence it does. This stability allows the U.S. to operate a de facto system of global taxation through the sale of, essentially worthless, Treasury securities to sovereign governments.
The DPRK, for example, couldn't move ten miles south of the DMZ without running out of fuel, food and ammunition. Why are 40,000 American troops in the ROK? Because Japan and the ROK have made more than US$1 trillion in tribute payments to the U.S. government (via the worthless "Treasury Securities" and other instruments) and the U.S. demands the tribute checks keep coming. That's how statues of Robert Byrd in West Virginia are built, highways in California are constructed and farmers in Iowa get paid for not growing crops.
The minute the real outcome of the destruction of the IDRP is shown to any American, they back way off on the demands for things like a gold standard, competitive presidential elections, public disclosure and graftless government. (as they should - nations act in their own interest; there is nothing immoral in nature) But it necessarily happens in private. If it happened in public you wouldn't get 500,000 German drones mindlessly drooling at the majestic arrival of the Augustine Emperor in Berlin for a pre-coronation tour of his provinces.
Speaking of that last point, if it ever gets translated into English you should read this book -
http://www.amazon.de/Die-deutsche-Karte ... 390247534X - by a retired general officer of the Bundeswehr and head of West German intelligence. It was panned in Germany because the reality of what he detailed was too uncomfortable for anyone in a cozy little red-green social-democracy like Germany to accept so they dismissed it as sensationalism. But it was true, true ... it needs not be pointed out that next month it will have been 30 years since the train station in Bologna, Italy was temporarily closed for repairs ...
