Fascists and Kooks
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“Maybe Rights are just more open minded than the left” – this has to be one of the most inflammatory remarks I have seen in my short blogging career! I found the comment on the JU feature page; you can read it here.
I am not going to shirk any issues here – unfortunately, the term fascist is all too easy to bandy about, I myself am guilty of brandishing the term upon some in a not in-frequent fashion, alas, I know they are not fascists in the true sense of the word, but it is ever so easy to integrate into any argument coming from the right.
The same can be said for the term ‘kook’ I believe it be can successfully argued that the term ‘kook’ has been dropped quite more substantially than the friendly ‘F’ word. How can it be so easy to align yourself with the left, when almost anything you say can be construed as ‘kook’ diatribe!
I try to keep my political activity to a minimum at JU – I am simply not in the same league as guys like Draginol, Greywar, or on the other side, Kingbee or Saint-Ying, however, I am very noticeably left, and I pride myself on my open mind.
When you assess people’s political leanings, and factionalise them accordingly, one side is always going to say the other has it easier. I won’t go so far as to say that those leaning to the right are closed minded, but I would like to question Karmagirls reasoning behind assuming supposed ignorance on the side of the left.
From my perspective – anyone from the right really struggles with broad and open thought. I am not so brash as to state they are not capable, but I sometimes find myself questioning their opinion, as it seems they discount so many factors when drawing their political conclusions.
This is what makes a place like JU so great. Would anyone bother reading arguments from the other side if they were so ‘closed minded’?
I would argue that those on the left would have more of an International concern. In today’s global climate, I suppose Karma can only assume how difficult it is to be on the ‘left’ because she is certainly on the right. If I can explain one thing about myself personally, and hopefully most of those inclined to the left, we don’t just rant and rave about people dieing, bombs being dropped etc… we generally care for the wellbeing of Humanity…
If the right think it’s easy to care about perceived injustice, then they are really more self centred than I thought, it just goes to prove why people are left, and why people are right. My interpretation based on these facts would be that the left are people who care about everyone, whereas the right simply care about their own personal agenda’s - which Karma correctly assumed.
Then again, we could both be wrong.
BAM!!!
I am not going to shirk any issues here – unfortunately, the term fascist is all too easy to bandy about, I myself am guilty of brandishing the term upon some in a not in-frequent fashion, alas, I know they are not fascists in the true sense of the word, but it is ever so easy to integrate into any argument coming from the right.
The same can be said for the term ‘kook’ I believe it be can successfully argued that the term ‘kook’ has been dropped quite more substantially than the friendly ‘F’ word. How can it be so easy to align yourself with the left, when almost anything you say can be construed as ‘kook’ diatribe!
I try to keep my political activity to a minimum at JU – I am simply not in the same league as guys like Draginol, Greywar, or on the other side, Kingbee or Saint-Ying, however, I am very noticeably left, and I pride myself on my open mind.
When you assess people’s political leanings, and factionalise them accordingly, one side is always going to say the other has it easier. I won’t go so far as to say that those leaning to the right are closed minded, but I would like to question Karmagirls reasoning behind assuming supposed ignorance on the side of the left.
From my perspective – anyone from the right really struggles with broad and open thought. I am not so brash as to state they are not capable, but I sometimes find myself questioning their opinion, as it seems they discount so many factors when drawing their political conclusions.
This is what makes a place like JU so great. Would anyone bother reading arguments from the other side if they were so ‘closed minded’?
I would argue that those on the left would have more of an International concern. In today’s global climate, I suppose Karma can only assume how difficult it is to be on the ‘left’ because she is certainly on the right. If I can explain one thing about myself personally, and hopefully most of those inclined to the left, we don’t just rant and rave about people dieing, bombs being dropped etc… we generally care for the wellbeing of Humanity…
If the right think it’s easy to care about perceived injustice, then they are really more self centred than I thought, it just goes to prove why people are left, and why people are right. My interpretation based on these facts would be that the left are people who care about everyone, whereas the right simply care about their own personal agenda’s - which Karma correctly assumed.
Then again, we could both be wrong.
BAM!!!
sure. 
. When Bill Clinton was president did he make the program bigger (IIRC, he actually tried to reform it). Does John Kerry have a plan to make welfare bigger? I'm starting to get the sense that this guy takes government responsibility way to seriously to try to increase welfare spending (of all things) at this juncture. He's much more concerned with health care, military and the budget deficit than with that. Welfare is firmly planted in the government bureaucracy we live with, and it doesn't seem like anyone really wants to take it on. It's not just an emotionally driven 'charity' either, it's an issue of public health and safety, common decency, and as I said, economy.