Posted by tj, a resident of the Old Palo Alto neighborhood, on Oct 15, 2008 at 8:28 am

If fact they both have become very, very wealthy hoodwinking manly young people with their Trotskyist propaganda

Posted by Paul, a resident of the Downtown North neighborhood, on Oct 15, 2008 at 9:25 am

Good insight, tj. It explains why the Libertarians, etc. are so eager to get in the party. Power corrupts, and how sweeeeet it is.

Posted by R Wray, a resident of the Palo Verde neighborhood, on Oct 15, 2008 at 9:44 am

Chomsky is not the first to point out that there isn't a dimes-worth of difference between the two parties. He is wrong, however, that the one party is the "business party". It is the altruist-collectivist big-government party.

Posted by Walter_E_Wallis, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Oct 16, 2008 at 8:15 pm
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We are, or were until recently, a one system system with 2 major sects vying for control. Obviously both sects want mostly the same things, and so the differences are in degrees. Who pays money for Chomsky's crap?