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Originally Posted by f0ca1
What? I think the right exists, just as the left exists.
I think the right's biggest problem is that they have failed to accomplish the goals at the core of their political philosophy.
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Thank you, and I agree. But this does not mean that you can claim that the leaders of the right in America are the definition of rightism.
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The right stands for less taxes, disproportionately for the weatlthy, but, it expands the government, and has created the boondoggle of the century in Iraq.
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The right stands for less taxes, and if you want to say disproportionately for the wealthy, then I won't argue. I think we went through that on
Why Obama's Policies Will Ruin the Economy
Because of Iraq and Bush's big government policies many people now think this is what the right stands for, but this is not the case. Conservatives look to the traditions of the founding fathers, who wanted government to be as small as possible and included devices in the structure of government to prevent its expansion. Many of these mechanisms were lost during the Civil War, and then the two world wars, and now that the right wing has come back into power, they have inhereted this big government tradition. Unfortunately, few of the right wing politicians are doing anything to change this. Do you know why? Because they are the ones who run the government, and therefore, they like their government to be big.
Iraq is a matter of national security, or at least it was at first when we thought they had WMD. Now it is a peace keeping mission in its essence, because its our fault they no longer have a government and it is therefore our responsibility to protect them from our previous actions.
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Well, I don't know. I give McCain credit for balls, although little else.
What it means is: he's probably going to lose.
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After Bush, I think its probably a good thing for him, and that he's going to win.
[quote]Supposedly the Republicans. The problem is, when they have power, they expand the government, and take on tasks of building other, arbitrary nations, while at the same time claiming the government should not, or can't, do this at home.[quote]
See what I said on Iraq
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So, it can't just be the leaders who should be blamed for the inability of the party to actualize it's supposed agenda, it's the people who actually believe the leaders are going to do it.
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Many Republicans are at fault. I agree.
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By the end of his first term, I think we'll have minimal troops in Iraq; less than 20,000, to protect our embassy.
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That will still cost a lot of money, and it may cause more troops having to be sent costing more money than it would have been to just stay there.
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I know that compromise and pragmatism are necessary to any action in such a system, and that severe ideological frameworks, like libertarianism, fail because most people do not have severe ideological frameworks.
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I really don't think you understand the principles behind a Federalist, democratic-republic. While compromise and pragmatism are necessary to take any action, the goal is to limit the action of the government. People are not supposed to compromise their principles.