[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Gautam:
>
> As a bit of a leftie myself, I'm a longtime Walzer fan. Thanks for pointing
> out these two articles. They were excellent.
>
> I think what has happened to much of the (intelligent) American Left is that
> it has drifted towards the center because of the kinds of excesses Walzer
> details. I'm certainly more moderate than I used to be, but I don't think
> it's me - I think I'm pretty much as liberal as I was, but the left has just
> become unmoored (from reasonableness if not from reason entirely) and floated
> WAY away from me.
>
I think both the left and the right have been drifting right for nearly 20 years
now, which is why I think that Democrats are much closer to the center than
Republicans. I think that the leftists Walzer speaks of are the vocal fringe,
much in evidence on college campuses but in few other places.
--
Doug
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"Now people stand themselves next to the righteous
And they believe the things they say are true
They speak in terms of what divides us
To justify the violence they do"
Jackson Browne, It Is One
