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RE: We Need To Talk About Leftist Violence
Partisanship is taught in govern-cement schools... nay, is it crammed down students throats in a brutal indoctrination ceremony that lasts 12+ years.
The left vs the right. Talked about like it is a one dimensional spectrum.
Where anything that is not on that line is omitted from being taught.
So that all the solutions and thoughts must lie somewhere on that line.
And thus, we have generations of people that think you are either wrong or your are right. When everything, both sides, are wrong.
Like you I hated Bush, the first one. And Bill Clinton should have been tried for treason. Bush... Obomba, all did the same thing. The same plan.
I think that it is; if we limit the definition to a balance of statism vs liberty. communism at the far left(statist) side and pure anarchy and the extreme side of the right (liberty) side.
Nolan and Pournelle overcomplicated analysis of the issue with two dimensional matrixes, based on secondary attributes like nationalism and racism...which in themselves can be placed mostly anywhere on the L/R scale, and have nothing to do with HOW government operates
The line from statism to liberty is fairly good. I will have to ponder on it.
I feel, that on that line, the republicats and the democrons would be the same point.
One wants the corporations to rule the govern-cement, and the other, the govern-cement to rule the corporations.... but in both systems, the same people are at the top. It is just a matter of rhetoric, or two masks on the same person.
So, the line with republicans on one side and the democrats on the other doesn't really exist.
Most of my current thoughts on political spectrums involve at least three dimension.
exactly. the democong vs repuke line is one we should look at as a false dichotomy. Even considering Republicans as "conservatives" doesn't match their voting record.