Dear Theists

[downbeatplumb]

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.

Firstly you think you have a left in US politics! I suppose all things are relative but your left is way right of any party in the UK even except possibly the National Front. You need an effective govenment to curb business. By ridding yourselves of government you unleash the hell of unrestricted businesses who do what they can to maximise profits, morality be damned. look at VW. Your gocenment and businesses are in bed together because of the stupid way you have allowed your parties to be funded and the obscene amounts needed for elections. Your system is corrupt, it seems by design, so when you get a decent man in office you don't know how to act, Obama seems decent and your best president for a long time  but he gets stick for everything he does for some reason.