elprincipe said:
^Amen.
Rubang - if you think Bush moved us to the "right," you are for the most part mistaken. The Republican Party as a whole has been discredited largely because of their abandonment of conservative principles such as fiscal conservatism, non-interventionism, strong commitment to personal liberties and strong resistance to corruption and cronyism. The Bush administration has been a massive failure on all those fronts, and I think most across the political spectrum can agree on that. Fiscal conservatism = Bush increased the debt and deficit massively and recently supported $1 trillion+ bailouts for Wall Street Non-interventionism = see Iraq Personal liberties = warrantless wiretapping, establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (a vast new bureaucracy not unrelated to the first point above), politicization of the Justice Department Corruption/cronyism = Michael Brown, Harriet Miers, numerous congressional Republican scandals The sad thing is that some people think the Democrats will actually be better (these people don't remember when the Democrats were last in power, for the most part). |
Okay, Bush didn't necessarily move us right, but he hijacked the right and redefined their movement and ruined the right's credibility for a long time, so we're turning a hard left at the fork in the road in November. And I'm keeping my fingers crossed we actually move left, and that Obama doesn't pull an anti-Bush and hijack the left and ruin it.