An article I found today. My one point of disagreement is that it is not necessarily important to "change" the two parties to make them more responsive to the people. I think we can render their influence neglible by our own caring action.

When the people take responsibility for their world, the parties will seem like child's play.

Comments?

Hillary Clinton and John McCain are one entity.

There is no longer any meaningful distinction between Hillary Clinton, Joe Lieberman, John McCain, or any other establishment politician working to keep our war machine operating in Iraq or the corporate machine manipulating our healthcare system.

Hillary Clinton jumped the shark a long time ago. She is the DLC candidate, in the most traditional sense; she is working to elect herself, the DLC candidate, the LieberDem candidate, or the Republican. She will not tolerate the will of the people. She will do whatever she can to overturn the will of the people.

She and John are reading from the same playbook at this point. They are working to maintain our LieberDemocracy... and Hillary in particular is undermining a healthy functioning two party Democratic system.

Here are some options:

1. Hillary Clinton is shortsighted, praising her ultimate opponent while alienating her own party.

2. Hillary Clinton is desperate, and throwing everything in the kitchen sink, including the kitchen sink.

3. Hillary Clinton is unprincipled - which we might think of as the more enduring form of desperation.  She wants power even at the cost of her own soul, so to speak.

4. The two party system is a farce, a facade concealing a single Ruling Class of 'vetted' war-makers, who use government to achieve their aims and the party system to avoid accountability for their actions.  Iron fist, meet velvet glove.  

5. Some combination of the above.  Please explain in the comments.

I guess even Republicans deserve a bit of good news once in a while, however small:

Ralph Nader said Sunday he will run for president as a third-party candidate, criticizing the top White House contenders as too close to big business and pledging to repeat a bid that will "shift the power from the few to the many."

"Shift the power from the few to the many," huh?  Gee... I thought that's what I'd been doing this past half decade or so, along with a few million of my neighbors in the netroots community?  Way to give us the finger, Ralph.

The once upon a time Republican Party had many "loyal opposition" friends for many of us. We respected their economic conservatism and were grateful to their responsible environmental concerns. In short the traditional Republican Party is just as threatened as we are by the Bush/fascist murder of Mother Nature and our Constitutional Republic. So this is a cry for help to these folks to HELP US save our country and the Earth.