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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Constant Reader who wrote (443)	6/6/2005 11:08:39 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (2) of 543863

I tend to agree about the courts not buckling to pinhead pressure from various figures on the Hill. As for eliminating discussion, I am trying to nudge everyone into practical discussions. Otherwise we can just go in circles with wonderful schemes all day. A prescription for what should be done in the world doesn't hold much water if it's either impractical or totally unlikely to happen. Seems to me the center needs to rebut the partisan ideologues by finding real solutions to real problems. That's the only way they have to distinguish themselves from the rabid sloganeering on the right and the left. I am not trying to close off discussion about principles; I will just remain skeptical of their utility absent a way to use them. The alternative is a Political Philosophy 101 thread which might be interesting to some, but I already did that in college more than 20 years ago.

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