Some fear GOP is being carried to the extreme

I realized that we had to go forward with the populist rebellion and get rid of the elites of the parties, both parties.

I had been saying this from Reagan's time. I did vote for Reagan to get rid of Carter and I had voted for Carter over Ford.

Reagan's domestic policies were so bad that I couldn't vote for him again. Mondale and Reagan live on, by the way, in the confrontation of Bob Beckel and Hannity on Hannity's show. Beckel  was Mondale's campaign manager.

Until we get a full paradigm shift in the mentality of the people and have political parties and governments that actually respond to the citizenry and not special interests, voting another sold-out/damaged goods  exponent of the right or the left's version of the status quo changes nothing.

That is why I keep saying that the populist revolt that began under Bush against Bush from the conservative side of the aisle has simply been transferred over onto the democrats who apparently thought that all that was just a republican problem.

Dennis Prager, a moderate consevative, once said that he had been thinking of running for the senate in California for the  republican party. He didn't largely because he discovered that the elite were very opposed to what everyday people, republicans or others, might want and that they were very determined to oppose him as well.

How does a rebellion take place, if no one turns up and makes a stand...

I think there is a point that approaches from those that claim an absolutionist belief in the constitution..and I don't mean Roy he is far more milder a derivative...where democracy is second to adherence to some nominal purism of an aged ideal. That is the man with the gun and tree of liberty sign. They will use the word rebellion far more directly. That is the extremism to fear and in the current ferment it is palpable in the US.

It is more than race. It is a rejection of progression, engagement and integration. It is a frustration and impotence of the new geopolitical reality. It is a grief at the loss of dominance. It is a fear of change. It is a clinging to what was, rather than what is. It is a passing of an era of what was and is no longer

Well, that is why this "tea party" rebellion, sparked by Santelli, a business journalist and commentator at CNBC, is very important.

Nixon was a moderate conservative and Kennedy was a moderate democrat. They were so alike that both campaigns had to invent differences.

Then both parties represented the people better, but not anywhere near what I would have liked to see.

Actually, what is happening was predicted in Third Wave and Power Shift, books by Toffler. People can access information and form "action plans" to take on their politicians like never before.

That is really what is happening.

Americans have felt uneasy about our future since the late sixties, but about our economic future only since the mid-1970s. 

Funny how Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader are both against Free Trade and NAFTA. I agree with both of them about this.

Reagan was a kind of fix for the American malaise, the low-grade depression, the feeling of helplessness, the growing poverty, the outsourcing of jobs, this incredible concept of "sunset industries", the death of whole neighborhoods in Philadelphia, for example, as the ship yards went off to Korea!

Hell, that whole neighborhood became a drug-infested mess in one generation.

Reagan helped us muster our strength to bring down the Soviet Union, an outcome I  just didn't think possible. It was a massive lesson to me about what parasitism does to a society, to their society, and now to our society.

Reagan only temporarily "cured" the economic problem as  Baby Boomer wives, unlike their mothers, went off to work, becoming the "Super-moms" who worked themselves round the clock to maintain a standard of living that our parents had had with only one wage-earner.

Bush allowed Wall Street to go nuts, though the seeds had been planted with the removal of the restrictions on Wall Street firms by Clinton-Reuben-Gingrich, a truly bi-partisan screwing of the American people.