[Superman]

Agree 100%, Jeff. I would like to think the Democrats have the best interests of the working men and women at heart but I'm not THAT naive. They are just as power-hungry, and just as beholden to corporate interests as their Republican counterparts. And so, like everyone else, my choices do not include leaders. Only the least of two evils. I still think (and believe this to be so obvious as to be factually true) that the chances of some 'good' public policy are far greater with the Dems as opposed to the Reps. Not by a wide margin, but I think it's crystal clear that in a Republican administration, there will be all-out war on workers in which there will be no quarter offered or taken. And so there will be a backlash of repair once a Dem takes the wheel. Back and forth in ferocious swings of partisanism. Perhaps the centrism of which I speak would be the product of the leadership I crave, and you have correctly pointed out that this, leadership, centrism, is not the goal of any camp or political strategy.

I do not abhor capitalism. It excites me in some ways. I have a great deal of respect for capitalism and for America, notwithstanding Sammy's frightening perception of me. But I also know that this greed, for money and power, is the problem. That has been the problem for all of recorded human history. We don't always manifest that with battlefields soaked in human blood. In this case, it is manifest as a widening social and economic gap. That brings me back to my fear. I don't bemoan differences in peoples' successes and resources. But I do think that the economic plunderers right here in America may have a rude awakening in store. No, actually, many of them, and/or their dollars, will go overseas. When America has been squeezed dry.

Put another way........Joe and Sally Lunchpail are an integral part of the successful capitalistic economy here that benefit investors, CEO's, etc......and when Joe and Sally lose their jobs, or cannot buy anything besides subsistence goods, the house of cards falls. While it seems to be the goal of conservatism to transfer wealth from regular folks to folks who already have more than they can consume......it is ultimately not in their best interests to succeed. Tax cuts will not lift this current recession. But an increase in real wages could. The foundation of our economy is not the corporation. It is the carpenter.