"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote in message
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From: ScottW - view profile
Date: Mon, Apr 10 2006 10:16 pm
Email: "ScottW"

Dennis Praegher today said the left hates the right because of
nationalist sentiment... which they associate with Hitler.
I thought that was pretty bizaare.

Rush probably said the left is stupid.

I didn't hear his show. I'm just guessing.

He implied the left wants to see America destroyed
like the free world destroyed Nazi Germany.

Scott, you apparently listen to (and believe) most any right-wing
talk-show host.

How about this hypothesis:

The left believes that what seperates the US from the rest of the world
is our civil rights, which the founding fathers thought important
enough to place in a Bill of Rights. The right wants to put things that
*eliminate* rights for people in the bill of rights.


Wow did you read that from some tract they had at the Democratic party HQ?

My perception of the GOP is not that they want to deny any legitiamte civil
rights, but define them as they more approriately should be.

How about the thought that the left isn't a bunch of treasonous people
intent on destroying the US.

I don't know that they are smart enough to conjure up that well formed a
notion, but one does have to ask after all the damage the Dems policies have
wrought, why they don't back off from some of their looney ideas.

The right cannot believe that. How about
the original intent of the framers of our Constitution trying to limit
not only the power of political parties but also that of special
interests. Some of us perceive the right as institutionalizing the
influence of special interests. That (to me) is far more treasonous.

The only reason special interests have power is because government created
it for them by passing laws that treat business as some sort of government
cash cow that they can plunder as they choose.
People who don't like getting ****ed by government cparice started paying
politicians to vothe the way they want.

Naturally government payofffs and the like have been around for a long time,
cazn you say Tammany Hall?

When I listen to right-wing radio (and I do, as my military training
tells me to keep an eye on the enemy to the maximum extent possible) I
find myself wondering: has the left ever done *anything* of value, or
for the good of the US? And has the right ever done *anything* wrong?


The obvious answer is that they have both done some good but only when it
was so overwhelmingly bad for them not to, and even that sort of threat
doesn't guarantee they will always.

I was asked by the Dems to run against the local Congressman at the
local caucuses a few weeks ago. Being a business owner and a military
retiree seems to be a valuable commodity politically these days.

I told them no. The republican Congressman here is a moderate, who does
not pander to the extreme religious right and (although he has some
different values than mine) strikes me as honest and forthright. He's
in the middle (but slightly to the right). I'm in the middle (but to
the left). I can deal with that.

The reason I've given you and nob so much **** is that you are both so
far to the right that it strikes me as a farce or a parody (has the
left ever done *anything* of value, or for the good of the US? And has
the right ever done *anything* wrong?).


That's the thing you think you know where I am and you couldn't be more
wrong more often.


I think most people are in the middle. If you want to talk about an
excluded middle, you only need to look at the political structure in
the US today.

I think most people want people to work for what they get and no favors from
governemt.

So here you have a serious reply to a post of yours. The next time you
choose to post some brainless right-wing crap, perhaps you'll better
understand why I'll ridicule you.


Because you are a left wing Kool Aid drinking Leftist, we knew that.

PS: the role of our government either federal, state or local, is not
to be our 'moral compass.' We all get to decide that on our own.

Yet neither side isever completely comfortable letting us do so.