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Re:The new authoritarianism by dragonwriter on Monday March 23, 2015 @01:58PM (#9252348)
> In the USA's particular case, you have 2 parties which, despite the claimed differences, wind up representing the exact same interests.

They aren't exactly the same interests. Because real preferences are multidimensional and the US electoral system has strong structural features which promote a two-party system (with differences that lie on a single dimension), for people whose most important issues don't lie on the axis of variation between the parties, they can seem similar, but they don't represent the exact same interests.

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Re:The new authoritarianism by xnull6guest on Monday March 23, 2015 @03:18PM (#9252826)
The Washington Consensus cast a long shadow. With regard to high finance, international politics and military activity the parties are effectively the same (though the GOP may have closer ties to OPEC). Most American voters feel very strongly about these issues.
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