I linked y'all to the wrong page. > http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/2675
is certainly interesting and relevant. But the "balance" page that has earned ire from liberals is: http://www.davidbrin.com/progressparadoxarticle.html There is another explanation for how one can despise the present GOP and be balanced. The democrats (as Will Rogers daid) are not one organized party. They are a melange. Many of them really are pinkos who bitterly oppsed Clinton for reducing the federal payroll, ending the deficit, putting our finances on a sound footing and doing more reregulation - removing unneeded government regulations - from small business than ALL gop presidents have ever PROPOSED... Deregulation and fiscal restraint and controlling crime and re-taking our borders... these were all hated by wings of the democrating party, within which struggles over such policies waged... and I often (not always!) took the side of the DLC moderates. These policy fights took place WITHIN the democratic party for one reason. Because the Republican party is not about policy. It is about raiding the public treasury to benefit a narrow aristocratic class. There are no other agendas. Why is it that Clinton TRIPLED the Border Patrol upon taking office, instituting Gatekeeper and retaking control over our borders, while both Bushes unambiguously crippled the BP as soon as they entered office? Many of the "conservative" voters would be surprised to learn this. Clinton did not crow over it because it did not seem "nice" to the liberals, and the goppers won't give him any credit. It's a fascinating story. One of many. No. I sometimes am a libertarian, sometimes a meddling environmentalist. But I am always against the aristocratic assholes who conspire, in every generation, to ruin the civilization of the Enlightenment and pound our social diamond back into a pyramid of privilege and serfs. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
