That 1% finances both parties, there is no difference between Demicans and Republicrats. Progressives or Obama have very little differences with the Bush's. Its a single entity, a monopoly party. They are all pro war, pro domestic police state, pro military industrial complex, pro deparment of education, pro big massive goverment, pro IRS, pro interventionist parties that have petty arguments on how to implement the same system. Just to add, I wouldnt dare compare today's war mongering blood thirsty big business progressives to Eisenhower.
Think of China...they can open a democracy and split the very same people into left and right, or blue and red. All the financing goes to the same people and people vote based on the choices they are given and pushed on them. At the end of the same its the same goverment. They will each take turns saving the country from disaster and people are fooled thinking they have had choice and change all along. People are brainwashed thinking they belong into an elite group thats a separate entity, when in reality they are all one.
Sure, they finance both parties. However, only one has policy that help the everyday guy. There are rich people who know that Social democracies like Netherlands have a great thing going, for all their citizens.
They care about global warming and the planet.
Think about what each party has done. HERE IS A SMALL LIST, also I placed the democrat conservatives policies of the past under Republicans to match ideological leanings now. I understand Lincoln was a Republican, and conservatives used to be Democrats.
REPUBLICANS (conservatives):
....citizens United, allowing unchecked power to buy elections....
....Fought against the forming of the Union, the preservation of the Union, and civil rights, every form along the way....
....fight against mass transit....
....fight against any form of carbon controls....
....fight against healthcare for all.....
....attempt to break up unions....
....torn down voting rights laws....
....attempts to suppress vote of minorities (ever recent study has found scant evidence of fraud, and in no cases would voter ID laws of stopped the fraud)....
....War on Drugs....
....a military industrial complex....
....for profit prisons....
DEMOCRATS (progressives)
....every worker law we have, unions, min wage, child labor, 40 hour work week, benefits, social security, etc....
....Medicaid, Medicare, Obamacare, and Single payer if they would let us....
....the abolition of slavery, civil rights, women's suffered, gay marriage laws, etc...
....railroads....
....FDA....
...highway system, although Republican block attempts to fund upgrading it....
....legislations of banks, which the Republicans are trying to abolished....
....changes to the justice system to reflect fair treatment....
....some states are passing 15 hour min wage, or more, all progressive (if kept up to inflation, min wage would be I high 20's now)....
.,..attempts to regulate oil companies, whom have fought all forms of regulations that would help our environment....
Really, the list goes on and on. Some wealthy donors give to Democrats, but of the two, only one at least moves us in the right direction.
Besides,when Republicans have control, they balloon the deficit.
Under Reagan---first large scale deficits in decades. Massive tax cuts for wealthy.
Under first Bush--more debt from tax cuts for wealthy.
Under CLINTON--balanced budget and went into surplus.
Second Bush--handed a surplus, brought us into massive deficits and a collapsing economy.how, wars and massive tax cuts on the wealthy.
Obama--turns economy around, and has shrunk the deficit to levels not seen since President Clinton was in office.
There is a difference between the parties, and it's big.