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Politics : View from the Center and Left -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (123012)	10/16/2009 8:06:10 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542149

I assume the "far left" you have in mind is roughly the same one I have in mind. It's actually folk well beyond Wharfie's politics, let alone mine. It's the parallel of the tea party crew, the birthers, the "we see a conspiracy at every level, behind every office door, in every speech, yada" folk. They simply have no serious public presence in politics right now. I don't see any in the senate. I don't know all the Dems in the House but I would be surprised to see anyone. Perhaps Kucinich but I haven't checked his politics recently. I don't mean there are no wackos among the Dems in the House; just that their wackiness has nothing to do with ideology and everything to do with the usual character flaws. So it's not a time for matching left and right craziness in order to locate some sort of center, imho. Nor do I wish to argue there are no serious, non wacko lefties in the country. I know a few; you probably know a few; Wharfie most likely knows a few; Sam types as if he does; Win seems to. But isolated individuals are not a movement, not even a collectivity. So the serious further left is not around in American politics best I can tell. Lots of Brits have argued that it's been a very long time since it was.