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Pastimes : Media Bias vs. Education vs. Time and What?
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To: PartyTime who started this subject2/9/2002 2:43:23 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 10
 
But let's figure this out. If the Right Wing had won all its battles over centuries of time (and it seems it has won given the obvious lack of food, health, shelter and meaningful jobs in the world all around), would the world be better off?

To answer your first question would require first defineing what "the right" is. The term is applied to different things at different times. Sometimes the term is applied to exactly opposite things, for example anti-communists, and hard line communists in Russia after the Soviet Union's collapse. Some liberals will apply the term to almost anything they see as bad. Of course "liberal" is itself a similarly flexible word, sometime meaning someone who supports more personal freedom, and sometimes meaning someone who supports more state intervention in the economy and the lives of ordinary people, corperations and private organizations.

As for obvious lack of food, health, shelter, and meaningful jobs, thats nonsense. The world's per capita food production and consumption has been going up for a long time. Both the United States, and the world as a whole are far wealthier then they have been in the past. Most of this increase of wealth is do to free market forces and where those forces are reined in to much by the government you tend to have poverty and suffering.

Tim
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