Poster Comment:
We've obviously been arguing in a thread over whether or not the GOP is truly better than the Dim Party, or perhaps rather ideologies.
We can refer to them as they are often referred, "Right" and "Left."
But is there really a right and a left politically speaking? For sure representatives in both parties have all categorically slidden "left" throughout the lives of anyone reading this and even further back.
Today's Right's are more left than the Left's of Kennedy, Nixon's, yea even Reagan's day!
And when these people get elected, what's the first thing that they say as a media mantra, "they'll have to move to the center," a center that keeps moving left, "...in order to govern/legislate."
The greatest damage to the liberties of Americans since 9/11 has come from the Right however, not the left, via the creation of an uncontrollable Military and War Industrial Complex that would have had Hitler and other famous historical dictators drooling all over themselves!
I would argue that there is no "right" or "left" other than in terminology which has obviously, to the informed, been used solely to deceive and control!
No, the profile of our politicians is far more consistent with a normal curve.
If one draws a vertical line down through the center of the normal curve, then it divides it into two equal halves with approximately 70% of the population of that distribution very close to that center line. Politically speaking, so close so as that there is tremendously little distinction between the two, with in this case often some "Lefts" even further to the "Right" of some "Rights" and visa versa.
The names Pansy Graham, John McCucaracha, Olympia Snowe-job, Arlen Sphinctor, and Joe Lieberself come to mind immediately. While some "Right" and some "Left" politically speaking, they are all all but interchangeable. Sphincter has even changed political parties recently suggesting little difference overall.
Most decisions are made from "Center," not "Right" or "Left." Those that are typically involve a trade-off going the other way.
In order to see clearly the nature of our Federal Government, people need to begin looking at the 3/4 of the portion of that normal curve as the driving force behind what gets done, or perhaps what's "being done" or being perpetrated upon us by a Government that many seem to view as possessing two diametric halves.
Rather, the American populace has been trained like monkeys to assume that there are two "halves," as it were, of government, with a significant ideological space in between them.
It's a "Good cop" vs. "Bad Cop" routine. To ~ 50% of the populace the "Good Cop" is the "Left," while to the other ~ 50% of the populace the "Good Cop" is the GOP. The "Bad Cop" roles for both are also thusly reversed.
But upon closer examination, it is clear to see that the differences between R and D, other than what is faked via media and "voting patterns" within Congress, that the lines between "Right" and "Left" become tremendously blurred when referring to the individual politicians holding the seats.
This leaves us with a far more normal distribution with really merely one clump of politicians occupying and owning "the middle," which obviously is hostile to the civil liberties of Americans for anyone not having slept through the last 20+ years.
It also means that apart from nomenclature, there is very little if any difference between "Right" and "Left" anymore these days as the entire Government is so far "left" of Constitutional principles and morality that it's in another solar system altogether.
The true issue is the campaign that the Federal Government has embarked upon making itself the enemy of a free people period. Most Americans continue to play the role apparently perfectly content to go into the modern era of serf status to their new masters in the castle. Naturally the crowd rushing to the towers for their "security," while coming with a terminal price whether people realize it yet or not, came with the bugel sounding the warnings of post-9/11 Amerika! Another topic altogether.
Until Americans begin to realize this, they will continue to be owned and played for the sheople that they are and ultimately end up impoverished and as modern day slaves!