Let's move into the 21st century.

I like the notion in Britain that Tories and Liberal Democrats may be forced to compromise with each other to form a government. Give and take is a wonderful thing. Often that makes for a good marriage, a good relationship. Something that we lack in American politics. Of course, no party gained a clearcut majority in Britain's election. Here in America, we usually have a 'majority' government. But only because many of us hold our noses when we go into the voting booths. All of the candidates stink. We just take turns changing the majority. And it really gets us nothing. It's the same old same old. We keep electing capitalists beholden to big corporate interests. Yes, to politicians dedicated to making the rich richer and the poor poorer. No big change. No revolution. We seem to be on a treadmill to nowhere. When really, it would be possible to change our political and economic systems. To something far better. Such as the serving of the true common good. But we Americans have the notion that the 18th century ideas of our founding fathers were the best. That they were enlightened political geniuses. Yes, maybe they were. For 18th century times. Only thing is, we are living in the 21st century. And we don't seem to know it. --Jim Broede