Reply #20: There's one long term trend that BOTH parties are...........

[socialist_n_TN]

overlooking, IMO. And they're overlooking it because, like some/most generals, THEY'RE FIGHTING THE LAST WAR.

THAT'S why the public is doing a yo-yo between the two parties every election cycle. The electorate knows what they want, even if they can't articulate it. THEY WANT SOMEBODY THAT'S UNEQUIVOCALLY ON THEIR SIDE! Not just in words, but in action. Until one party or another, gives them this UNEQUIVOCAL support in ACTION, they will continue to vacillate.

The public doesn't care anymore if it's supply side economics or socialism or something in between that gives them a better life, they just want that better life. Now the ideologues on the right (just say the Republican Party, whether Teabag or Regular) won't give them that better life because they're tied to 30 years of supply side AND EVEN THE PUBLIC KNOWS THAT WON'T WORK. So it's up to the Dems to provide that REAL alternative. IF the Dems DO NOT provide that REAL alternative, the public will vote for more and more drastic versions of supply side, even if they don't think that it'll work. And those more drastic measures, of course, will make their lives even MORE miserable.

At some point, this situation will lead to a hot revolution/civil war IF THE DEMS DON'T STEP UP AND PROVIDE A REAL ALTERNATIVE! Stop fighting the Reagan tsunami Dems. That's over and has BEEN over for 6/7 years. You don't have to become Republican Lite just to survive, you can actually step up and DO something. If you don't, someone else will.