flynn23 wrote:
] When Decius asks "how democratic is your country?" you can
] look at this article and answer "not very".
]
] This just highlights the divisiveness of our current society
] even more. Without a blurring of two extremes, we will never
] truly unite and accomplish much. The current presidential
] election is not about ideology as much as it's about
] execution. If we truly want choice, and we truly want to
] fashion policies that are considerate of reality, then we've
] GOT to bring more than two extremes to the table.

What do you mean by "two extremes"? If you look at the Political Compass map, you'll see that Bush and Kerry are in the same quadrant -- Authoritarian Right. They're practically the same.

http://www.politicalcompass.org/

You correctly point out that the current election is about execution. That's because they don't really have substantive ideological differences.

We have no "uniting" left to do. If you think we are gridlocked now, when Republicans and Democrats in Congress have to agree on a budget, just imagine trying to get Bush and Cobb to reach a compromise on a spending bill.

RE: Badnarik & Cobb arrested at debate in STL