http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/con...s_b_164066.html

very interesting POV. It agrees with what I have seen the past 4 -8 years too.

I think we need a balance of the two politrical positions. If progressives run things too long, you do tend to see too much social progerams and taxes. Too much means that business starts to suffer, which harms us all.

Unfortunately, when conservatives run things for too long you get...well, what is happening now as a worst case. A general case of 'the rich get richer and the poor get poorer' tends to apply in milder cases.

There was an old rule/saying from my childhood in Massachusetts. 'Let the Republicans run things for two turns then the Democrats for one. The republicans will be busy fixing what the democrats messed up.' I'm sure that isn't quite the quote, but its the gist. I'm wondering if we need to try to do one term each now? Both parties seem to be very good at messing things up..

Of course, the parties were very different 40 years ago. The South was just beginning to be Republican, and the Democratic party was not where all the moderate people fled to, disgusted by the neocons.