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Politics, 2008
Let us boil this thing down to essentials if we may.
The left, the democrats, represented by Obama and Clinton, have similar world views and political intentions.
Basically it is an 'isolationist' agenda, not unknown in American political history.
The left wants the United States to assume a more passive position internationally by withdrawing influence from the middle east and other parts of the world.
That translates to removing military presences from Iraq and Afghanistan, but it does not end there. The left wants to withdraw from NATO and SEATO participation which now entails US military presence in Europe, Korea, the Philippines, basically a drawdown and a drawback from super power status in military might around the globe. Fair enough?
As with every other democratic administration, this translates also to cutting military expenditures at home, reducing the size and scope of not just the armed forces but also the information apparatus, the CIA and all other intelligence and information services that provide knowledge about world events. Fair enough?
Domestically and Economically, the left wishes to assume an 'isolationist', anti trade, high tariff position once again, to protect union labor from competition and retain corporate and industrial employment within the US. Fair enough?
Domestically, the left wishes high taxes on business and corporations in all fields of endeavor from agribusiness to energy production and non union business concerns such as Walmart and other retail entities. Fair enough?
The left also, as a humanitarian gesture, wishes to grant amnesty to millions of immigrants who are currently in the US without legal documentation and leave the gates open for more to come. They do this to bolster union labor and the democrat party to whom the Hispanics have shown allegiance. Fair enough?
The left also wishes to Nationalize, Health Care Services from top to bottom, guaranteeing every American the 'right' to adequate medical care. Fair enough?
They also wish to institute educational opportunities from preschool through college in return for national service in such agencies as the Peace Corps and National Service in one way or another. Fair enough?
There is much more of course, including Supreme Court appointments that will continue legal abortion, assault the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, in other words, a politically active supreme court; let us also mention the Gay Rights brigade and the affirmative action, quota mentality of enforcing equality through legislation. Fair enough?
By, 'fair enough'. I mean as a broad interpretation of the over all goals of the left wing, and I think that is a fair, though incomplete listing of the desires of the left. Okay?
The problem with this forum and the left in general is that you are all true believers that these issues are the 'right and proper' functions of government and admirable desires.
What you cannot get into your mindset is that many, if not most Americans are aghast at most of the agenda as they see it for what it is, an attempt to Balkanize, Socialize, an independent nation based on individual rights and liberties.
Perhaps in another post I will outline the inevitable results if the above policies are put into place in the United States, but I would prefer if another somewhat conservative poster would make an independent effort to do so.
Amicus...
Politics, 2008
Let us boil this thing down to essentials if we may.
The left, the democrats, represented by Obama and Clinton, have similar world views and political intentions.
Basically it is an 'isolationist' agenda, not unknown in American political history.
The left wants the United States to assume a more passive position internationally by withdrawing influence from the middle east and other parts of the world.
That translates to removing military presences from Iraq and Afghanistan, but it does not end there. The left wants to withdraw from NATO and SEATO participation which now entails US military presence in Europe, Korea, the Philippines, basically a drawdown and a drawback from super power status in military might around the globe. Fair enough?
As with every other democratic administration, this translates also to cutting military expenditures at home, reducing the size and scope of not just the armed forces but also the information apparatus, the CIA and all other intelligence and information services that provide knowledge about world events. Fair enough?
Domestically and Economically, the left wishes to assume an 'isolationist', anti trade, high tariff position once again, to protect union labor from competition and retain corporate and industrial employment within the US. Fair enough?
Domestically, the left wishes high taxes on business and corporations in all fields of endeavor from agribusiness to energy production and non union business concerns such as Walmart and other retail entities. Fair enough?
The left also, as a humanitarian gesture, wishes to grant amnesty to millions of immigrants who are currently in the US without legal documentation and leave the gates open for more to come. They do this to bolster union labor and the democrat party to whom the Hispanics have shown allegiance. Fair enough?
The left also wishes to Nationalize, Health Care Services from top to bottom, guaranteeing every American the 'right' to adequate medical care. Fair enough?
They also wish to institute educational opportunities from preschool through college in return for national service in such agencies as the Peace Corps and National Service in one way or another. Fair enough?
There is much more of course, including Supreme Court appointments that will continue legal abortion, assault the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, in other words, a politically active supreme court; let us also mention the Gay Rights brigade and the affirmative action, quota mentality of enforcing equality through legislation. Fair enough?
By, 'fair enough'. I mean as a broad interpretation of the over all goals of the left wing, and I think that is a fair, though incomplete listing of the desires of the left. Okay?
The problem with this forum and the left in general is that you are all true believers that these issues are the 'right and proper' functions of government and admirable desires.
What you cannot get into your mindset is that many, if not most Americans are aghast at most of the agenda as they see it for what it is, an attempt to Balkanize, Socialize, an independent nation based on individual rights and liberties.
Perhaps in another post I will outline the inevitable results if the above policies are put into place in the United States, but I would prefer if another somewhat conservative poster would make an independent effort to do so.
Amicus...
from the good little witch.
