At 09:33 PM Wednesday 11/12/2008, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
>On Nov 12, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote:
>
> > i think there is a difference in the bitterness on the left and the
> > venom on the right. both sides feel they are right, but the hate
> > from the right is based on fear, hate and greed, while the left is
> > motivated by idealism, and what defines true patriotism.
>
>Ah. But this language itself is so emotionally loaded that it does
>nothing but contribute to the polarization.
Ding!
>("Sure, everyone's pissed,
>but the left is pissed for more moral reasons!")
LOL!
>The sad truth is that
>the left isn't all that different from the right, not as long as big
>money continues to control the discourse in DC.
Ding! Ding!! Ding!!!
(Or should that be "ka-CHING!!)
>Political winds shift, but the lobbyists just change parties to give
>their attention to.
They give to both parties so that whoever is elected will be indebted to them.
>Little else becomes different. You might not have
>been around to sniff the social winds in the US in 1980, but I was,
>and let me tell you that the Dems were quite thoroughly corrupted by
>power and money back then; one of the reasons Reagan won was because
>of the national trend against abuse of power by Democrats.
Though the 444 days beginning on 4 Nov 79 and the debacle of Desert
One certainly contributed. As well as some of the economic things
which as always may or may not have been in whoever is the current
President's control but for which he usually gets the blame.
. . . ronn! :)
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