Alcibiades wrote:
On 8 Jul 2006 20:59:39 -0700, "Don Gabacho" <jpastore@nettaxi.com>
wrote:
As usual, the U.S.'s moronic far right is creating the very
circumstances that,will push even Obradors supporters further to the
left.
Bush and his friends are not the far right, they are not even right of
center.
And I don't really care if they are pushed to the left down there, for
all I know it might be good for them. I only mention it because most
of the commentators here seem to care, most are in favor of this
leftist candidate whether they be for or against the mojado invasion.
My own feeling is that anyone Bush and his friends don't like is de
facto the best choice, for any country.
In other countries the Left still means what it used to mean. In the
US, the Left has almost nothing to do with traditional leftist issues.
What is leftist about a policy of ruining your own workers incomes,
importing job competition en masse?
And right there, sir, you have hit the nail on the head, so to speak.
The USA political party scene is
deeply disfunctional. It is warped and without the traditional roles
of left and right. Those roles only exist in the minds of some older
voters, the major political parties represent neither.
Thus the question is raised: "What exactly _do_ the pretenders to the
roles of the Right and of the Left have as their core values; what are
their intentions?"
Both the Left and the Right, as you point out, seem to be getting far
afield from their sources and traditions. As you know, I promote a new
party, or even a new range of parties, which would recapture the
imaginations and represent the desires of "the people", or of various
factions of the people. There are traditions, and there are
neo-traditions, and either of these might be generally functional, or
only functional situationally and temporarily. The people are drawn to
traditionalism, even the tradition of rebelliousness. Yet I think the
American people of all walks of life are very traditional towards
revolutionary sentiment whenever government gets out of touch with the
needs and desires of We the People. We the People need to be ready to
drop the various Parties' leadership and if necessary fire them, or keep
them on only on the sufferance that they are kept on only because they
know procedure, and are otherwise not thought fit to lead. In the same
way you might retain the CEO of a company, because though they might be
quite mad and without comprehensible purpose, still they can go through
all of the motions and know on whom to call for this or that special
need, we may retain the leadership of the Parties but really they won't
be the leadership, but rather they would be maniacs on parole, let to do
something useful so long as it's overseen to cause no harm.
As it is, the lunatics have been running the asylum for so long that the
sane people have come to believe that the madmen are the picture of
sanity and that the sane are all fruitcakes. But the truth will come
out, and we see the costs of leadership by the demented, deluded by
their adherence to ideologies which become rapidly and dangerously
detached from any underpinnings of reality, yet which can still lash out
into the real world with incalculable, dire, costs. While I won't at all
condemn the traditional values of the Old School Republicans -- nor will
I decry the brilliant yet novel commonsense of the Gingrich school of
Radical Center Republicans -- I have to call on the rank-and-file of the
Republican Party to understand that the present directors of the
movement may be simply insane. They're not taking the country where it
needs to go, nowhere near _that_ place are they leading us. I don't
think it's possible for us to go where they want us to go, a place they
won't speak of. I think that place is extinction for the majority of us,
and even the Left seems to have some urge to do the March of the
Lemmings. Political power, at this point, wants political power.
Leadership and good governance seem to have little to do with what's
happening here.
Look to November: and in most cases, "leave no incumbent seated, or
unseated".
--
The more unnatural anything is, the more it is
capable of becoming the object of dismal admiration.
--Thomas Paine, "Age of Reason"
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