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"I'm not sure that
America needs a third party...I would be happy to just see a second
one" author unknown
From Bill
Maher June 19th
So, I stand by my
words. But, there is another side to the story. And that is that
every time Obama tries to take on a progressive cause, there's a
major political party standing in his way: the Democrats. Now,
people talk a lot about a third political party in America. We
don't need a third party. We need a first party. You go to the
polls and your choices are the guy who voted for the first Wall
Street bailout, or the guy who voted for the next ten.
This year, we're hearing that a public option for health care is
unlikely because it doesn't have the support of enough
Democrats. Even Ted Kennedy's plan-- Ted Kennedy, yeah -- leaves
37 million uninsured. This is because we don't have a left and a
right part in this country anymore. We have a center-right party
and a crazy party.
And, over the last 30-odd years, Democrats have moved to the
right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital.
So, what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund
managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big
agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby; that's the Democrats.
And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious
lunatics, flat-earth-ers and Civil War re-enactors who mostly
communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans. And
who actually worry that Obama is a socialist.
Socialist? He's not even a liberal. I know he's not because he's
on TV. And while I see Democrats on television, I don't see
actual liberals. And if occasionally you do get to hear Ralph
Nader or Noam Chomsky or Dennis Kucinich, they're treated like
buffoons. Okay, these are not three of the world's most
charismatic men, but then nobody is going to confuse Newt
Gingrich for Zac Efron. And I have to look at his fat face on TV
more often than that free credit report song.
Shouldn't there be one party that unambiguously supports cutting
the military budget, a party that is straight up in favor of gun
control, gay marriage, higher taxes on the rich, universal
health care--legalizing pot--and steep, direct taxing of
polluters? These aren't radical ideas. A majority of Americans
are either already for them or would be if they were properly
argued and defended.
And what we need is an actual progressive party to represent the
millions of Americans who aren't being served by the Democrats.
Because, bottom line, Democrats are the new Republicans.
It's like when some Chinese company buys the name of a great old
American brand and slaps it on some cheap crap. You buy it out
of reflex, and it's only later that you think, wow, I didn't
even know Woolworth's made dildos
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