[davep]

Ok, it's not rocket science, but it's worth reiterating.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat does it mean when we can no longer distinguish between the actions of the left and the right? If that dynamic no longer accurately distinguishes what occurs, why are so many of our policy debates framed in Left/Right terms?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat does it mean when we can no longer distinguish between the actions of the left and the right?

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations

[ItalyRules]

The US has about 400 Billionaires. These are the people with the power and through the exercise of that power, they get what they want.

This is normal and natural, not some abhorant deviancy. The winners win, the losers deserve no consideration, because they are losers. It has always been this way.

You are a nation of losers, whining about the winners winning and walking.

You have been made like sheep. Under fascism the strong survive and move on towards glory with heads high. You whine, and seek solice in each others company. To me you are a bunch of old women.

What I don't understand is why the strong do not just kick you aside and shame you for your weakness.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat does it mean when we can no longer distinguish between the actions of the left and the right?

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ItalyRules', 'T')he US has about 400 Billionaires. These are the people with the power and through the exercise of that power, they get what they want.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'B')ut you confuse "life style" with "rights" apparently.

[davep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ItalyRules', 'T')he US has about 400 Billionaires. These are the people with the power and through the exercise of that power, they get what they want.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')I am not an American, but my impression is that in land of free a chosen life style, particularly if it is middle class consumer life style is considered to be right.
That is as per paper records at least.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')I am not an American, but my impression is that in land of free a chosen life style, particularly if it is middle class consumer life style is considered to be right.
That is as per paper records at least.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')How so?
They wanted to give poor enough benefits and free services to make them living like middle class does.

[EnergyUnlimited]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')But you seem to have your mind made up about the American left. In spite of you not being either American nor left.

[ItalyRules]

Not a troll, just revealing the hard truths about how it really is.

So far the responses have just been more whining. Pick yourselves up, for God's sake.

If this isn't over as you claim, where is the action that says otherwise. All I see is the whining about how unfair it all is.

Having your way requires the courage to act to get it. No one is going to take pity on you, or be convinced by your arguments of the unfairness of it all. That is just whining not acting.

I see no courage. I see no one acting. I see a bunch of peasants about to have the rest taken from them because they will not fight for themselves.

[efarmer]

And gives us each day Our Daily Beast.

The mess that Obama is making with his liberal policies and broken promises, is preventing us from emulating the tremendous success of Italy throughout the 1930's and 1940's and leaving us to settle
for trolls from Alaska, instead of glorious triumph in Ethiopia.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('davep', 'O')k, it's not rocket science, but it's worth reiterating.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat does it mean when we can no longer distinguish between the actions of the left and the right? If that dynamic no longer accurately distinguishes what occurs, why are so many of our policy debates framed in Left/Right terms?

[americandream]

Being "left" ( and I presume that means Marxist as opposed to variants of capitalism lite) is an objective as opposed to normative view of history. In other words, it's an understanding of what MUST be as a consequence of a set of facts, not what we would rather it be. No sooner do we impose our own expectations on a set of facts, no sooner is our understanding in the quicksand of reformism.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')hat does it mean when we can no longer distinguish between the actions of the left and the right?

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mattduke', 'I') read the article expecting a long list of bad actions taken by corporations. Instead I find a long list of bad actions taken by Government, leaving me more than a little confused by the choice of title.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('EnergyUnlimited', '
')How so?
They wanted to give poor enough benefits and free services to make them living like middle class does.

[americandream]

outcast-searcher

Is this the smart class who came with bowls outstretched, suspending their own deregulated rules of untrammelled entrepreneurship, as they sought access to taxpayer funds (largely funded by income earners) to fund their bankrupt gambling?

Socialised capitalism is hardly what one would expect of those hardened and "red in tooth and claw" from the rigours of a "free" market place.