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Ace, I guess another way to put it is that if you find yourself critical of market economies, free trade, and how capital is used, and if you'd rather see the economy organized a different way—a planned economy, for example—and that you'd rather see the nation's production organized from either the top down or via unions/councils, then you've probably left the centre entirely. If you would like to see a revolution to make this happen, then you've definitely left it.
With this in mind, Obama is obviously not a left-wing politician. He's a centrist. Centrists are more likely to support regulation and other forms of government intervention in a market economy. I don't think Obama is striving for a command economy, depsite what Tea Partiers would like us to believe.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
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