Gosh, It just disappeared???
Where Are You Politically?Church and politics. I avoid them both religiously. Unfortunately, I can no more separate myself from politics than humans can separate themselves from nature.
It's just not possible.
It's up to me to do what I can to find out what is really going on. The internet helps, but as you may have noticed, there is much untruth on the web.
I needed a simple device to help me orient myself in a confusing blizzard of contradictory information. Taking inspiration from modern physics, I sought clarity through higher dimensionality.
The traditional political spectrum is a one dimensional line, and apparently has had a "Left" and a "Right" since the French Revolution (Post-royalty, the conservative elements, clergy and surviving nobility, sat to the right of the President while the more reactionary citizens, you and me, sat to the left.
Here I drew the spectrum using contemporary terminology. I leave you to decide where along the line that you are proud to be.
If you grasp the 2 ends of the line and bend the line into a circle, you now have a two dimensional representation.
Now where are you proud to be?
If you look at politics in the west in general and the US in particular, the extreme left does not really exist anymore. It has been effectively lopped off thanks to the Cold War.
No such pruning has been done on the right, a circumstance that is most evident in the American 2-party system. Much to the dismay of the Republican party, there is only one place for the right wing nutters to go and that is the Republican party.
Even though I don't pay much attention, I still feel that I'm being bombarded with badness. Loss of freedoms, falling standard of living, enemies on all sides and within. It's like a combination of Joseph McCarthy and Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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Here's one:
"It was because we failed to do the thing we really have a genius for which is compromise. Americans like to think of themselves as uncompromising. Our true genius is for compromise. Our whole government is founded on it..."
-Shelby Foote
You shout away the rights of someone else, you shout away your own.
Posti, that wasn't a dig. This isn't a boring blog. I know nothing about US politics. I guess it is something that affects you closely and you have every right to be watching, even if currently from a distance because of work.
What I don't know is why you have no emoticons on this blog. I feel quite lost without my handshakes and little rolly people. :)
There is nobody to really speak out for the working man, and the unemployed.
I hate party politics anyway.
I think it is the whole political system is wrong.
Unfortunately, none of them will change it. They are only there to feather their own nests.
They foolishly went into government with a corrupt rightwing party, which ultimately broke the country, and their party got decimated.
To be quiet honest I don't always grasp our politics here in England either as they seem to say one thing and often do another. Something I always look out for when going to vote myself is which party will take care of the most vulnerable of our society. This to me is high on my priority.
Viv I can't find my emicons... The've disappeared... 'Sigh'...