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Debate: Does Mike Huckabee's Failure Represent a Shift to the Left in American Politics? (view source)
Revision as of 14:41, March 5, 2008
, 14:41, March 5, 2008→No
::''"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)
::''"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)
:::OK, agreed on some of the specifics. But that's true of most pragmatic politics - short on the ideology, long on the pic'n'mix. But GWB is, by most measures, fairly representative of the Republican right (and the religious right to some degree) whereas as none of the three front-runners are. And while there may well be a "religion left", it appears to have nothing like the political impact that the well-organised religious right does. Although the failure of Huckabee may well scotch that! [[User:Ajkgordon|Ajkgordon]] 09:41, 5 March 2008 (EST)