How come the left is no longer against the Iraq war? How come they are no longer raising Cain about the Patriot Act? How come they are no longer complaining about “welfare” to corporations? Weren’t these the reasons they hated the right? Did they stop all the noise because the left owns them now? Why is it about left v. right? Why did the left stop fighting for social freedoms when they elected the president? Are they no longer important? Is it the same reason that so many on the right turned a blind eye to fiscally irresponsible president because they elected him?
Well, if you’re asking honestly I can’t speak for the left. I’m not sure I would count as a member of that boogeyman organization. However, you’re right if you mean that now that its an Obama war, people have largely stopped criticizing it. However, there are many, many, many organizations and people who oppose it just as vehemently today as they did months ago. As can also be observed, a significant number of the left are fighting against Obama’s health care proposal because they see it as an abandonment of his mandate to fix health care and insurance.
I will also add that the Republican administration has claimed for years that the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq were over. Do you believe that? Do you believe they were over in 2008 and suddenly have started again now that its convenient to blame them on a Democratic president?
Finally, the left/right dichotomy as it exists today began in the mid to late sixties. Traditionally, the left has supported a progressive move to greater civil liberties and a remedy to the excesses of capitalism. The right has supported a maintenance of the status quo or even a return to an imagined past era. Today, there is less difference between the left and right than one would expect, due to the proliferation of commercial interests and their unregulated interference in the Democratic process.
As for, MSNBC probably bothers me as much as it does you; however, there are one or two programs, like Rachel Maddow that have a level of journalistic integrity not seen on other networks.
I don’t see any way out of that, nor do I actually advocate any solution to the mess we’re in here. I come here because the level of stupidity in the Republican discourse is simply unmatched in its offensive stupidity. There is nothing like this in the whole world. Frankly, I’m tired of these stupid people reflecting on my country.
