I personally believe that the far left is much more dangerous to America, simply because it seems that they don't see America as something worth defending.
In the words of Bill Clinton "I would rather be strong and wrong than weak and right".
I personally believe that the far left is much more dangerous to America, simply because it seems that they don't see America as something worth defending.
It all depends on your perspective.
How do you balance safety and security against freedom and liberty? Depending on where you fall on that scale, determines which one you feel is inherently more dangerous.
I would say most of America is moderate or centrist. They are screwed by either extreme.
So you are a left-wing extremist? Unless you are, I obviously wasn't referring to you.hmmm, 'America is not worth defending'...must remember this, must remember this...I will chant it tonight in my nightly round of liberal self-hypnosis of the things that I never actually thought but are yet, apparently, attributable to me. By morning I will be right as rain!
So you are a left-wing extremist? Unless you are, I obviously wasn't referring to you.
Wow........Do you even believe in capatalism?You didn't say 'left-wing extremist' you said 'far left' which is more vauge. Am I far left? Some people think so. I am farther left than our president.
Wow........Do you even believe in capatalism?
From what you've just said, you seem to be more moderate than anything else. You surely don't seem further left than PrezBo. You'd have to go to Berkeley to find that.believe in it, like do I believe it exists? uh, yes.
Do I believe it has fatal flaws when it is given unfettered domain as a means of shaping and supporting a society? yes
Do I believe democracy is best served by a balance of capitalistic and socialistic interests that protect both business and people? yes
But mostly I believe in what Korimyr wrote above me (except for the nationalism, bit, because I'm not real keen on nationalism). And I don't believe that the 'far left' or the 'far right' have much real voice in American politics. It's not in America's interest to be extreme.
Yeah, like John Kerry.That is why so many of us left wing types are service veterans...
I think anything taken too far is dangerous for America.
So you are a left-wing extremist? Unless you are, I obviously wasn't referring to you.
You're asking me whether I'd prefer 19th-century America or the U.S.S.R.? The former, hands down.
Both an economic dimension and a social dimension are important factors for a proper political analysis. By adding the social dimension you can show that Stalin was an authoritarian leftist (ie the state is more important than the individual) and that Gandhi, believing in the supreme value of each individual, is a liberal leftist. While the former involves state-imposed arbitary collectivism in the extreme top left, on the extreme bottom left is voluntary collectivism at regional level, with no state involved. Hundreds of such anarchist communities exisited in Spain during the civil war period
If "state-imposed arbitrary collectivism" was the only or dominant ideology of the far left, you can sure as hell bet that I wouldn't be associated with that monstrosity.
I think you are the exception rather than the rule.
If there were a swarm of Leninists around every "far-left" function, I'd agree. However, the anti-globalization movement, for example, is primarily anarchist and libertarian socialist in nature.
They're not exactly Leninist, but they're not libertarian socialist either. I think Obama personifies the far left- especially considering that most of the far left support him. He wants "redistribution of wealth", to use his own words. He does not think that people will do this without government intervention (and he is very right to think that). He wants the government to collect wealth and redistribute it. This is what happened in the U.S.S.R. and this is what the far left wants.
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