tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17190292.post6515977709130867317..comments2023-10-07T05:35:14.064-04:00Comments on Bazungu Bucks: I Chose the Wrong PictureJohn Powershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17126222842766191343noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17190292.post-71501001223365245052010-09-02T05:59:43.033-04:002010-09-02T05:59:43.033-04:00I am on the far left of the far right (from where ...I am on the far left of the far right (from where you stand). This is because, though I am a lefty from the viewpoint of my society, your society is so far progressed to the left—an extreme that I fear as much as I hate it (and it is indeed an extreme)—that lefties from here will look like far right fanatics (from where you stand). So you will certainly find some things we espouse—say, the general rejection of homosexuality and abortion—to be far right to you, when for us they are cutting-edge left (at the very least the discussion of them is).<br /><br />I know that the American Right is still dealing with a hangover of racism, and it feels compelled to identify with that sorry tribe of idiots that came before it, compelled to be wrong with them in order to be right with them also. But if you manage to peel off such dangerous debts, the American Right looks like the only sane thing in town. After all, these TEA Partyists—even ignoring that they have explicitly (as far as I know) refused to let race be an issue—are the only ones who are marching against your sovereign debt. That is a bigger problem—the debt—than most other things Americans can think of now. (Their inconsistency is in not marching against Bush—but the lefties did that, and they were right.)<br />Anyway … :o) Long live the far right of the far left.The 27th Comradehttp://detamble.com/blogs/1bnoreply@blogger.com