On Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:37:22 +0100, andrel wrote:

> What helps for me is that
> democrats put the need of the people first (or at least they suggest
> that) while republicans put the need of the nation first (assuming that
> the interest of themselves coincides with the interest of the nation).

That's an interesting perspective - but it implies that the Democrats do 
not put the needs of the nation first; I think you could sum the ideology 
up by saying that the Democrats put the needs of the nation first, but 
define the nation as the sum of its people.  The Republicans put the 
needs of the nation first, but (at least economically) the belief there 
is that if they take care of the upper class, the rest will take care of 
itself.  (But I know that'll draw some flack from people in that party 
over that definition as well).

Jim

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