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Musicmystery -> RE: Actual "Leftist" Positions (6/22/2012 7:27:45 AM)
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There is one thing I agree with Rush Limbaugh about: It is the extreme ends of any movement that move any cause forward. Consider, for example, the current birth control debate. Are we really sitting here, in 2012, almost 40 years after Roe v Wade, debating on weather women should or should not have easy acess to birth control? Are we really sitting here, close to 80 years after the passage of the Wagner Act, debating if workers should have the right to organize and collectively bargain? With almost 1/2 of Americans living below the poverty line, the right still beleives that trickle down economics is a sustainable and sensible plan.
No...extremism generates chatter. 40 years later, nothing has changed. 80 years later, we know workers have the right--that's what puts unions on the table. And half of Americans do not live below the poverty line. 15% do.
The old "moderate is apathy" is bullshit. Only extreme positions are viable? Nonsense. There's nothing wrong with avidly advocating a moderate position, and not as a compromise, but as the most sensible solution.
Extremists are the problem--to the point of refusing to negotiate, merely blocking each other's work blindly. That's not progress, and it isn't going to get us anywhere--it's how we got into this hole we're digging.
Stop digging. That's progress right there.
I've no idea what you're talking about with "the average person," or what you think you're refuting, or what the hell you're talking about with the "why is this acceptable" as if I think it is.
There's enough crap on this board from the cons. If you want to have a discussion with me, have a honest one, not an invented one. There's no point in me participating in the latter, as you're writing both parts.
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