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12-10-2007, 07:49 PM | #112 (permalink) |
killedmyraindog
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
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All bitching aside, I do like how we're presenting some logical positions of the right, which gets an all too slanted view, even from its own supporters. Most of the Right-wingers here in the states champion populist slogans made for morons and i think it undersells the right.
Also, they champion mindless zealots which hurts them much more. The point is summed up well in this Maureen Dowd comment: "The world is globalizing, nuclear weapons are proliferating, the Middle East is seething, but Republicans are still arguing the Scopes trial." However, the republican right hasn't always been the bible-thumping yahoo's that serve as its face today and a great deal of logic is given the the positions that come to the socially right. They tend to border on libertarianism but feel that certainly big government serves for something. In hosrt, the tenets of society which we hold to have merit should be championed by government (education, democratic republicanism, and things like police, fire and postage) and the rest leave to the states.
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