[ale] Well isn't this special

[Tim Watts]

think you meant to post this to the list...

On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 07:05 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Wed September 29 2010, Tim Watts wrote:
> >  Saying we have more to fear from the Left than the Right is kind of like
> > saying we have more to fear from electricity than gasoline because getting
> > electrocuted would be worse than being burned alive. There's quite a number
> > of assumptions going on there, no?
> 
> I agree to a point... Far left groups tend to be more violent, death squads , 
> internment camps, arayan nation... while far right anarchists are totally 
> anti-government/libertarian leaning, I don't think I can remember any groups 
> that tried genocide, ethnic cleansing... I don't want to kill anyone, I just 
> don't want the government telling me what I can/can't do:)
> 
There seems to be a basic disagreement about what is left and right
here. 

> the problem is, in the ;ast 100 years, the progressives have moved our country 
> so far to the left, that "moderate" democrats are almost like the far-left 
> crazies of Woodrow Wilsons era. & Moderate republicans are far worse than 
> 1940's democrats ever were.
> 
You just can't be serious. Democrats have moved to the left!? Our
country has moved to the left? Have you got Beck-Goggles on? Is that the
problem?

If we're more left than were in 1910 that's probably a Good Thing. Did
you enjoy your weekend? You can thank a progressive for that.


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