I don't think there is an organized left in this country with a platform that radical and moderate liberals can embrace, such as socialized medicine, massive government spending to promote culture, technology, science, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, women's rights, alternative lifestyles
I think the Democrat Party embraces most of what you list here, do they not? The DLC may demur from one or two of these things.
and above all, Love and Respect for the Power of the Universe, the Human Reality, in all its Greatness.
I think these people are in the Natural Law Party. <g>
Regarding Thoreau and women, I thought his poem To the Maiden in the East raised questions about a romantic interest there.
I like Thoreau a lot, but I think his "solitude" has been overplayed and romanticized. He built his famous cabin on a woodlot owned by Emerson, and it was not very far from town. He probably had frequent visitors and interacted with many passersby. |
