On being the basketball team that wins 100-0.

Although I hate to come out and say it, I agree with the article linked below from Huffington Post.  It is good to have an intelligent, Loyal Opposition in a Congress or Parliament.  Not like the Stupid and arguably Disloyal one we have in the Congressional Republicans (and the California legislature). 

(On a somewhat unrelated note, there's been a lot of foaming at the mouth about Hugo Chavez in Venezuela seeking to end his term limits--by lawful means, I might add--in the U.S. press, including columnists David Appel & Marc Cooper in Huffington Post, suggesting that he intends to set himself up as Dictator-for-Life.   I suspect he could do that now by extralegal means if he wanted to.  Part of his problem is that his Opposition is in as much disarray as the Republican party, with no basis for unity except their opposition to Chavez.  Like the Republicans, they can obstruct but can't construct--so Chavez is using his popularity with the people to do a constitutional end run around them.   The replies to Appel in the comments section of his article are particularly cogent.   Obama may have to take it to the people like Chavez--and is doing it already to some extent--but I digress).  

It is interesting that in Britain, for example, it is the Conservatives who are proposing Draconian caps on executive pay. 

I suppose in my U.S. utopia there would be a right wing party, consisting of what are now liberal Democrats--people who want to keep a well-regulated capitaist system with a social safety net, and a left wing party, consisting of people who would like to introduce thorough-going socialism through parliamentary means.  (The latter set of people are almost politically invisible--except maybe for Bernie Sanders and it's a bit of a stretch to claim him.) 
 
The Democrats were in power for enough of the 20th century to become shot through with enough misdemeanor corruption to enable the Gingrich Revolution of the 90's.  Of course, the Republicans quickly matched the Democrats for corruption and then left the Democrats far behind by undertaking felonious corruption, pecuniary and political,  on a breathtaking scale. 

Still, within the current parameters of political feasibility, it would be nice to win a few games 100-0 (see metaphor in the article linked below, "In Praise of New Republican Leadership" by Paul Jenkins
 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-jenkins/in-praise-of-new-republic_b_167299.html

 
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