Comments on: Dems Against Exercise & Health

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Sat, 06 Aug 2005 13:26:55 +0000

Ms Educated Pacyderm,

Sorry for the light posting and delayed responses. Just went through three days of constant meetings, dawn to dusk and had no energy to think. I agree we need a vibrant two party system. But the liberal fringe is repulsing the mainstream and killing off the democrat party as we knew it. A new party (maybe still called the democrats) will need to arise to challenge the reps from the middle left. This is not for certain but it will be pretty clear in the next two elections. If 2006 is another blow to the democrats in the Senate it will be nearly impossible to turn around the implosion. I am for a two party system, but not one where the liberal fringe is one of them.

By: AcademicElephant

AcademicElephant — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 22:45:20 +0000

I know, but my worry is that as the Galley Slaves said this morning, that a “faltering Democratic party merely provides room for Republicans to get by without doing the intellectual heavy-lifting. I think most of us would agree that the marketplace of ideas works best when we have two healthy, intellectually vibrant political parties.” This is precisely our argument about academia–a one-party system is rarely a success.

By: AJStrata

AJStrata — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 11:08:58 +0000

AJ usually, occasionally the webmistress LJ. I guess we can’t stop the dems from acting foolish, it is a free country…

By: AcademicElephant

AcademicElephant — Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:42:21 +0000

AJ (or LJ?): The Chait LATimes editorial last week suddenly doesn’t seem so random–this is actually one of their “talking points” and Chait was pedaling it as an op-ed piece.

This is moving beyond unhinged to pathetic.