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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (10333)1/30/2006 3:26:13 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (2) of 541654
 
Perhaps you have to be a libertarian to recognize how offensive it is for people who aren't to co-opt the "choice" banner. It's every bit as hypocritical and offensive as the "life" banner.

I've been trying to remind myself how we got into this useless verbal jousting. While my "give me a break" certainly stands, and while I cannot possibly imagine that large categories of people get upset over government regulations to wear seatbelts and the like (in fact, of course, they don't), I wonder how we got here.

I think we started with some folk tossing around the "far left" term more than a little freely, as in "those idiots." That led to an attempt to get some clarity on the right/left distinction and the "far element in each. Which led to abortion as an illustration.

I'm done. Don't see any future in this conversation. In fact, haven't for some time.

My wife and I heard a wonderful Carnegie Hall concert Friday night. The Berlin Philharmonic with Simon Rattle conducting in an all Mozart festival (his 250th birthday) and Alfred Brendel doing the 27th piano concerto.

I still hear it. We've decided it's better to spend a bit more on genuinely good entertainment and go to less than a bit less and go to more.

Now that's something.
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