aug 2, 2011

what i've learned from watching the debt deal play out is that the ideal in a democracy is to have three parties, not two, and have the one in the centre in power as often as possible. american democracy has actually misunderstood the dialectic.

thesis: republican
anti-thesis: democrat
synthesis: bi-partisanship.

....wrong....

thesis: right
anti-thesis: left
synthesis: centre

....correct....

if there was a left-wing force exerting pressure on obama, he wouldn't have been able to cave so spectacularly. as it is right now, there's no consequences attached to his behaviour. there's no other option to support..

when you have only two actors on the stage, it's not a dialectic, it's a power struggle. you need three for a dialectic to occur.

starting a new party from scratch will never work. the democrats need to fracture. Progressive Democrats of America need to leave the democratic party and start a new one.

otherwise, the power struggles will continue indefinitely, and no synthesis will ever occur.