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dksuddeth · 09-06-2008, 02:00 PM

Host, the error you're making is in holding fast to what USED to be left has been excised, when in fact it hasn't been excised, but co-opted. Those that are left, or left of center, are now part of the problem as well. So it isn't that the old left has moved right, but that wealth and power have supplied both left and right with the emotion and power of greed.

I needed to add to this...

It started before the 1950s as well. Todays political power grabs and upper class vs. lower class is a direct result of FDR's administration. So much power was consolidated in to a government entity at that time, that this is what we have left of it.

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dksuddeth Junkie Location: bedford, tx	Host, the error you're making is in holding fast to what USED to be left has been excised, when in fact it hasn't been excised, but co-opted. Those that are left, or left of center, are now part of the problem as well. So it isn't that the old left has moved right, but that wealth and power have supplied both left and right with the emotion and power of greed. I needed to add to this... It started before the 1950s as well. Todays political power grabs and upper class vs. lower class is a direct result of FDR's administration. So much power was consolidated in to a government entity at that time, that this is what we have left of it. __________________ "no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything. You cannot conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." Last edited by dksuddeth; 09-06-2008 at 02:03 PM..