(April 18, 2015 at 7:18 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(April 17, 2015 at 8:54 pm)Mezmo! Wrote: Polaris! You seriously think Obama is center RIGHT?
In the UK he would be considered far right.
Over the last few years the right wing creep has led to a rather scary shift in where the US sits in relation to the rest of the world.
You me the scary shift towards greater protection of individual liberties and constitutional governance? I'm just not seeing that shift. If anything the current administration of BHO has continued to undermine the rule of law and given the EPA, DOE, the FCC and the NSA to encroach on the private life of citizens. I say continue because this slow erosion has occurred under the unchecked reign of the Executive branch.
The principle at play is this: as government gets bigger the citizen gets smaller. Power is becoming increasingly centralized at the federal level and the influence of big business interests is growing. I believe the current concern over income inequality is not entirely unfounded, but the proposed solutions on the left (the right gives a shit) do not recognize the relationship between the two. The left is under the illusion that big government is a check on big business. The opposite is true. Big business and big government are in bed together against the general public. "To Big to Fail" institutions, like banks and auto companies, get bail-out money. Large aerospace firms and entities like Haliburton get sweet no-bid contracts and lucrative deals. Senators go in as well-to-do people, but come out as millionaires.
