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And this one is a San Francisco leftie Keep it up, lefties....you're a dying breed


www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/05/22/INGUNCQHKJ1.DTL

[guangho]

He is right.

[The Man known as The Man]

He would be labeleed as a frightening Conservative with a hidden agenda in Canada.

[Leslie Cheswyck]

He would be assassinated in The Netherlands.

[guangho]

[hypnotist]

Two obvious things:

[Apple Scruff]

Double post

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[Nowhere Man]

Yes, the poor lefties. They're a dying breed.

I move that all lefties just give up the ghost and become card-carrying Republicans.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Affect change from within.

[guangho]

The right has two great gifts: they can articulate an agenda in thirty seconds and twenty syllables (or less) and have the ability to force everyone who claims to be one of them, be it a Mainer or a Texan to toe the line.

"Terrorists hate freedom."
"Class warfare."
"Soft on crime."
"Liberal judges."
"Right to life."
"The constitutional option."
"You're with us or against us."
"A vote for Kerry is a vote for terror."

What does the left have? Nothing remotely like it- just a lot of handwringing and tons of consultants who premise their six-figure services on the idea that the left, as constructed, is unpalatable to the public and must (by the use of said six-figure services) be sold to Joe Sixpack. And for all that money, they still got no slogans. So let me suggest a few.

"Equality, liberty and justice for all."
"Democracy now."
"For G-d's sake and ours."
"Equal opprtunity."
"Economic freedom."
"The right to be let alone." (There is a huge libertarian sect that the left could tap if they were effective at it.)
"Values worth fighting for." (What values? You tell us.)

[Kuros]

[Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee]

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Nowhere Man]

To lay it on the line, I believe I would rather concede the next election to the GOP than vote Democrat again.

The point here is also that seeking out or hoping that one side of the political spectrum dies is a fallacy. It will always be there, irregardless of parties. Parties are not provided for in the constitution but are rather a product of it.

To have one side "die" and there be only one party would be a step toward communism. Unless, of course, the grouping of everyone under one party splintered it and naturally resulted in two parties.

It's a shame we can't have more than two (see electoral college and frozen congressional seats).

I honestly don't want "the right" to die. The Right and the the Left are an unwritten system of checks and balances we have.

As such, I would have been far happier if "the Left" had run a full-on anti-war platform against the GOP's clearly pro-war platform. If we'd still lost, it would have been a far more honest, satisfying outcome.

Just as if we'd had a referendum on whether to invade Iraq before we did it.

I'd sleep easier at night if I knew that we did what "the American people" themselves had decided instead of having someone claiming to have the "American people's" support.

To speak for the author of the article, I think he's clearly stated that he's not "gone right". He's instead searching looking for his own politics. Good for him, but I'm not sure exactly what he's saying. It seems he's unhappy that enough people weren't happy enough about Iraq's elections. I don't think that means he buys into the pro-torture, anti-environment, pro-corporation, pro-life stance of the contemporary right.

He leaves these aspects unexamined, and he could fall into the pseudo-left category of Rudy Guliani and Zell Miller.

But, to get back to my original point, why support a party that compromises its convictions to pander to others. A platform, win or lose, should be based on convictions.

So, yes, Republicans win in this respect, but this party is just as corrupt as the other. And parties do die.

So, yes, I'm willing and prepared to let the Democrats die. Why? They don't represent me adequately.

And I suppose that gives a lot of conservatives their jollies, but take a look around.

You wanted tax cuts at the same time you wanted to blow a truck bomb of money on Iraq. To be quite bi-partisan, that is just plain stupid.

Let's say Clinton is the last Democrat president. Talk all you want about his morals, but he balanced the budget and paid back on the deficit.

The economics you voted for ignores the deficit.

In fact, you voted for more.

Enjoy your short-sighted tax cuts and even hope the death of the Democrats, but don't ingulge on the fantasy that the left is going to die.

[hypnotist]