Both parties make this error all the time. The internet and the availability of extremely finely detailed, extremely unbiased news makes the entire set up very, very suspect IMHO that this would be the case. I would simply refer you to all the republicans that are going to change party this next election, 06. They weren't under the banner of the old GOP to begin with, just like the idea that the dems are going to be working with their base.
In fact, both parties try to sell each other ideas on what their base really is - but they both tend to fall into empty rhetoric when it comes to actual reforms. I don't know how many times I've heard speeches that I just knew were written by someone who took a statistical report, sat down, figured out what would make the most number of voters turn towards a vote just for election - and not for the issue - and then have that candidate promptly proceed to connect him or her self with the paid lobbyist special interest groups ensconced in washington that helped him to fund and finance that approach in his or her election. There are so many of these people in both parties that the representatives end up working for the middlemen and the base is just going to move radically away. The GOP was so worried about it they had to start their own fake news station to keep the less intelligent voters in line, one that substitutes news media entertainment for news.
The litmus test in what you're looking at is this: if it can be run 24/7 in the background all day long, its not going to help.
The slogans and neat meaty epithets they come up with regarding their "Views" should be subject to that test - is it formulated to resonate in your subconscious? A form of a song? Or is it a view, of that man, that you would cast that vote for..
If it is, its likely that it can be dated, and it may even be... dare we say it .... impossible to hum to yourself while you are cooking breakfast..
Was that a Dean Scream I heard from Iraq, today - that said "human rights abuses are as bad, if not worse, now, than they were under saddam hussein" from the ex-iraq PM? Was it a scream from a torture chamber? Was it an American torture chamber?
We have people in the highest levels of government trying to authorize torture and detainment of the citizenry. I think about that every day.
In sum, you are correct. But who exactly is dominating the parties - is not as important as the implicit acceptance by both sides, that, after they are elected a new group of people will take over to steer them where the corporations think that they should go. Because, where we're going is in the wrong direction and under the current administration, its still going in that direction - and clearly we don't have anyone standing up and questioning those that are pushing us in the wrong direction. Its only a well defined, very public and very personal attack on one man. The rest of them are getting out of jail, free...
