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I actually don't care that much about the Republicans vs. Democrats thing, it's mostly just an artifact of the quaint US two-party pseudo-democracy...

In all fairness, I think that American Republicans and Democrats currently differ on many important issues more than, say, most European Demochristians do from Social democrats (or even reformed Communists). I am affraid that European political scene is currently too 'homogenised', lacking radical marginal ideas (that still fall within the universally accepted limits of democracy and humen rights). I mean, one can't tell (to use German examples, Croatian are too obscure and surreal) CDU from SDP in labor policy, or from Greens in environment. Perhaps exception are British with their strong Euro-scepticism, and most important issue of them all, fox hunting (Then again, who would have guessed that Blair belongs to Labour?)