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Originally Posted by no1brownsfan
No having and an open mind, seeing everything case by case is right.
Drinking the kool-aide and being a blind partisan is not.
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It's not being a blind partisan and it also not being closed minded if you see an entire political spectrum as EVIL. Even if and when the right does something that benefits ALL I suspect their motives.
You see, the right has a long long long history. It's very easy to study and become familiar with what they stand for, what their agenda is and who they really represent. The libraries of the country are full of books for those who care enough to find out the truth.
Right from the very beginning the Right wing of politics supported and upheld the rights of kings. Now, that in it's self might not be so bad but because it has always been done AGAINST the interests of everyone else in the society it becomes an evil, selfish, regressive, reactionary and also I might add fully discredited political philosphy.
You know, here in Canada the extreme social problems that are so widespread, so distructive, cost so much in crime, prisons, murders etc. in the USA are a small fraction of what you have there. Almost every single American city has large areas that resemble war zones, SLUMS that are mind boggling in their extent. WE don't have any of that here. Our murder rate is a small fraction of the US rate.
Seeing that we are a society that has arisen fron the same roots, our population makeup is very similar albeit more diversified, and our cultures are very similar, How can you account for such a huge difference in our two societies?
The answer is very clear. We don't now and have never had an extreme right wing political force that retards social development, creates urban wastelands, guarantees slums and huge numbers of marginalized citizens, rigs the entire system to benefit the "Kings".
In conclusion, in my mind it is not partisan that I detest the right, their history, their methods and their aims. They are a throughly negative force in our society and a plague upon it.
I want you to notice that I have not said anything about conservatives. Conservativism is not the same thing at all as rightist. A conservative can be progressive, he can desire progress for a wide swath of the country, he can propose solutions for intrenched poverty, urban decay, social problems of all kinds, etc.
A rightest can not do these things, his default position is that all progress and innovation in the social structure, any increase in the standard of living of the common man is against and contrary to the interests of the king and the king's court.
In the USA most of the GOP are not conservatives in any definition of that word. They are rightists and extreme rightists. This fact will be ultimately the extinction of this political dinosaur. That has been the case everywhere else in this world and history has a habit of repeating it's self. The only reason the rightists have managed to hold on for so long in the USA is the country had enough wealth and influence in the world that the crumbs offf the king's table were enough to keep the riff raff at bay.
Those days are done and it's nothing but downhill for the forces of the right from here on in.
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