Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site grkermit.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!larry
From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Democrats vs. Republicans
Message-ID: <543@grkermit.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Aug-83 09:48:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: grkermit.543
Posted: Mon Aug  8 09:48:42 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 8-Aug-83 20:47:00 EDT
References: ccieng5.116 <5655@unc.UUCP>
Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA
Lines: 20

The problem with all the nasty generalizations people made about
republicans is that they are for the most part only true of Reaganite
republicans, which until recently were not the mainstream of the party.
All generalizations about Democrats are true perhaps for the
Dellums/Kennedy wing of the party, but not for the mainstream.  Take
a pair of typical dems and reps: John Glenn and Howard Baker.  Their
political stances are virtually indistinguishable.  Both support
American Hegemony abroad,  a "strong" (read imperialistic) military,
limited government economic intervention,  the "free market", etc.
Both have absolutely no interest in making any signifigant changes in
the status quo.  In fact, Reagan is the first prez since Roosevelt to
INITIATE any serious changes in the status quo, and for that reason
perhaps, people are starting to believe that there is a difference
between the parties.


-- 
Larry Kolodney 
{linus decvax}!genrad!grkermit!larry
(ARPA)  rms.g.lkk@mit-ai