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Debate: Does Mike Huckabee's Failure Represent a Shift to the Left in American Politics? (view source)
Revision as of 14:21, March 5, 2008
, 14:21, March 5, 2008no edit summary
:But if, as you claim, neither left or right has a monopoly on faith, surely we should disregard the faith issue. What is almost certain is that the next president will be to the left of GWB and many conservatives insist that McCain is not a conservative, merely a liberal Republican, perhaps even more left than Clinton. So, is this representative of any shift in political leanings of the American electorate? (I would challenge the originally quoted statement about religion monopoly. While it might not be a monopoly, the right is far more comfortable with combining politics with religion than the left.) [[User:Ajkgordon|Ajkgordon]] 09:13, 5 March 2008 (EST)
:But if, as you claim, neither left or right has a monopoly on faith, surely we should disregard the faith issue. What is almost certain is that the next president will be to the left of GWB and many conservatives insist that McCain is not a conservative, merely a liberal Republican, perhaps even more left than Clinton. So, is this representative of any shift in political leanings of the American electorate? (I would challenge the originally quoted statement about religion monopoly. While it might not be a monopoly, the right is far more comfortable with combining politics with religion than the left.) [[User:Ajkgordon|Ajkgordon]] 09:13, 5 March 2008 (EST)
::''"the next president will be to the left of GWB "'' That would appear to be the case: however, big-C conservatives will argue that GWB spending public money like a sailor on shore leave and driving the country back into deficit speaks to how conservative he really was. And big-L liberals might argue, as Nader and Chomsky do, that the Democrats represent the slightly-less-right-wing of American conservatism, and that the difference in terms of progressive social policy is negligible...''"the right is far more comfortable with combining politics with religion than the left."'': Check out some liberation theology or other left-wing political religious movements and you'll see that's not really the case - lefties can be very religious and the religious can be quite left....they just tend to keep it out of direct policy questions...God cares about people and their well-being, not politics. [[User:AliceBG|AliceBG]] 09:21, 5 March 2008 (EST)