The thing about this election

[trempnvt]

The thing about this election is that it's so close and people are so scared. I know some people who are afraid that if Bush wins, by 2008 America will have its own version of a KGB and people who criticize the government in any way will disappear from their houses and never be heard from again. And I know people who are that if Kerry wins,

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[mirideee]

Tzippy.. what are the democrats - and what are republicans?

[mirideee]

briefly!

[trempnvt]

Was it brief enough?

[trempnvt]

I don't know how parties work in England, but you know how in Israel, there are thousands of parties, so the people are actually represented and the party with the plurality, be it Labor or Likud, has to make a coalition? Yeah, in America it's not like that. Everything is either Democrat or Republican.

What people generally believe is that Democrats are left-wing and Republicans are right. Meaning, Democrats believe in small government when it comes to civil liberties and big government when it comes to budget spending (as in, closer to socialism) and Republicans believe in large governemtn when it comes to civil liberties and small government when it comes to budget spending (as in, closer to laissez-faire capitalism).

[aimserraiecla]

I could not for the life of me figure out how to spell laissez-faire! I spelled it differently in my notes every day for the month we were discussing it in History. What? It's not like I took passed French.