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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
I agree that the statements are closer to correct if you're talking about the true extremes in our relatively limited Americn political spectrum. However, part of the problem with our political discourse today is that partisans on each side attempt to paint their foes as that sort of extremist, and often seem incapable of presenting complex issues in any more nuanced way than that right/left summary we saw.
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Fair enough.
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
OTOH -- I certainly don't fall within the "Left" he's talking about. I continue to be astonished that America has changed so much in the past 20 years that my views are now center-Left. I think I'm closest to a Bush I Republican -- I mean Bush I of 1978 -- before he sold his soul and flipped on key positions to become Reagan's Vice-President.
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A tribute to a man that most on the left (and here I do mean the left, not just the far left) considered an aimiable dunce.
By Bush I circa 1978, do you mean a Rockefeller Republican?
