[OPE] One party state?

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton was quoted by the BBC as saying that
Cuba's readmission to the OAS would be conditional on "democratic reforms"
in Cuba's one-party state, but the BBC also said that the US might be
"outvoted".

My musing is: isn't the US itself pretty much a one-party state these days?
The Republican Party has more or less collapsed and what remains of its
leadership has been to a considerable extent integrated in the government
apparatus, Mr Obama being careful to retain a workable degree of unity in
the political class.

What would be the substantive difference, in real terms, between the
governmental systems of Cuba and the US, from the viewpoint of Joe Average?
Maybe there are differences, but they may have much more in common than you
would think!

Jurriaan

E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (6.0.0.362)
Database version: 5.10260
http://www.pctools.com/uk/spyware-doctor-antivirus/
_______________________________________________
ope mailing list
ope@lists.csuchico.edu
https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
Received on Tue Jun 2 17:45:53 2009