Reply #83: Did the far-right vote for this president?

[sabrina 1]

That's one difference.

Did the far-right campaign to get a Democratic Majority in all three branches of government?

That's another difference.

Did the far-right support providing a universal health care system where every American receives the best quality health care regardless of age, race or religion?

One more difference.

Does the far-right support a woman's right to choose?

Yet one more difference.

Does the far right agree that there should a separation of Church and State?

I could go on, but there are so many differences I would be here all night.

I can't think of any similarities at all.

Can think of where both left and right agreed on some things. But then, their reasons for their respective positions are so different, it's impossible to say, even on those issues, that they are 'exactly the same'.

One issue was the Wall St. bailouts. A huge majority were against them. If that had been put to a vote by the American people, instead of their so-called representatives, Wall St. would be history, unless they could have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps.

The other this health care bill. Across the board, people are against it for so many different reasons, there is no way to even compare the different groups.

Even within each group, there are differences. But one part of the bill, once it is known to them, that people across the spectrum oppose, is the individual mandates. Sometimes there is an extraordinary alliance of different factions which doesn't happen often, but when it does, history is often changed. The American Revolution was one of those times. Many people who were so different in so many ways, culturally, economically, politically, did agree about one thing, the 'Mother country' was treating all of them unfairly. And those unlikely alliances helped change the course of history.

This is the first time in my lifetime that I have seen people from all dfifferent political backgrounds, Liberals, Conservatives, Libertarians, Republicans, Democrats and Independents agree on one issue, and the first time for me that I actually cannot defend Democrats on the issue of mandates. I find such a system to be something I would have expected from Bush/Cheney, but never a Democrat.

As for far-Left? That has to be a joke. There is no such thing as 'far-Left' in the US. Really, when someone says that, I wonder if they've ever left their small corner of the world.