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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: koan who wrote (755979)12/4/2013 7:36:30 PM
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The big myth of false equivalency.

I sometimes ask people: "name one large issue in the last century where the liberals were on the wrong side and the conservatives on the right side.

Yet to hear one.
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Margaret Sanger's Negro Project

Prohibition - supported by Progressives who wanted to improve the life of the lower classes and enact an income tax to replace excise taxes on liquor, which was the major source of federal revenue from Washington's time on.

Intervention in Viet Nam - policy of liberal Presidents JFK, LBJ

Liberal Woodrow Wilson policies - WW I, segregation of federal agencies

Liberal FDR policies - The New Deal, which extended the Great Depression, red lining invented by federal housing programs

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