Comments on: Is it really over? http://www.messofthedamned.org/2004/11/04/is-it-really-over/ Re Vera, Potas Bene Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:59:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: bp http://www.messofthedamned.org/2004/11/04/is-it-really-over/comment-page-1/#comment-342 bp Thu, 04 Nov 2004 19:35:55 +0000 http://control-access5.com/~rader/2004/11/04/is-it-really-over/#comment-342 My God man! Arlen Specter is currently in the running for the most worthless man in the universe. There is a middle but Americans have never been and will never be good at staying in the middle. We're a people of extremes: wildly optimistic, then wildly despairing, making money hand over fist or suffering through a terrible depression. We don't do things by half measures. That being said, things may find a center point but just now there are seventy plus years of bad ideas and bad policies to be repaired and/or undone. All the New Deal/Great Society problems have to be reviewed and then repaired or scrapped. And that's just policy-wise. The deterioration of American culture since the 1960s has to be arrested and then sent back slightly the other way. You know perfectly well that to get arrest momentum you first have to apply force in the other direction. Things will settle, they always do. -bp My God man! Arlen Specter is currently in the running for the most worthless man in the universe.

There is a middle but Americans have never been and will never be good at staying in the middle. We’re a people of extremes: wildly optimistic, then wildly despairing, making money hand over fist or suffering through a terrible depression. We don’t do things by half measures.

That being said, things may find a center point but just now there are seventy plus years of bad ideas and bad policies to be repaired and/or undone. All the New Deal/Great Society problems have to be reviewed and then repaired or scrapped. And that’s just policy-wise. The deterioration of American culture since the 1960s has to be arrested and then sent back slightly the other way.

You know perfectly well that to get arrest momentum you first have to apply force in the other direction. Things will settle, they always do.

-bp

]]> By: Chad http://www.messofthedamned.org/2004/11/04/is-it-really-over/comment-page-1/#comment-341 Chad Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:39:18 +0000 http://control-access5.com/~rader/2004/11/04/is-it-really-over/#comment-341 To follow up on your last point, I don't quite agree that we just need 1 party to change. Being an Independent, I agree with some of the Republican beliefs, some of the Democrat beliefs. And, I agree that the Democratic party needs to move a little more right for me to feel more comfortable with them. Having said that, I also think that the Republican party needs to move more left, as I think they've over-compensated for the Democrating stretch to the left. I think, magic-bullet craziness aside, that Arlen Spector is the kind of Republican that I think the party needs more of. On the Democratic side, stop rolling out the John Edwards' of the world, and focus more on the middle class' values. We've become a nation very divided politically, with not many in the middle. As a nation, I think we need to be more centrist. To follow up on your last point, I don’t quite agree that we just need 1 party to change. Being an Independent, I agree with some of the Republican beliefs, some of the Democrat beliefs. And, I agree that the Democratic party needs to move a little more right for me to feel more comfortable with them. Having said that, I also think that the Republican party needs to move more left, as I think they’ve over-compensated for the Democrating stretch to the left. I think, magic-bullet craziness aside, that Arlen Spector is the kind of Republican that I think the party needs more of. On the Democratic side, stop rolling out the John Edwards’ of the world, and focus more on the middle class’ values. We’ve become a nation very divided politically, with not many in the middle. As a nation, I think we need to be more centrist.

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