Blind as a Bat
Saturday 22 May 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + Journalism
I’m always amused by popular references to the allegedly all-powerful American “left.” The term suggests that progressives today possess the same kind of robust, ideologically driven political apparatus as the right — a machine putting principles before party affiliation.
This notion is hilarious because it is so absurd.
Yet The New York Times reports:
With the Senate’s passage of financial regulation, Congress and the White House have completed 16 months of activity that rival any other since the New Deal in scope or ambition. Like the Reagan Revolution or Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the new progressive period has the makings of a generational shift in how Washington operates.
I’m always amused that some people don’t understand that just because Obama hasn’t put forth policy that isn’t far enough left for you, does not mean that his policies are not leftist. Your argument is like saying that there is no political right in the US because Bush pushed through Medicare Part D. Both arguments are completely crazy and demonstrate only 1 thing: those who keep them do not have a firm grip on reality.
2010-05-22 » madlibertarianguy