Posted by
BECOLBY on Saturday, March 28, 2009 9:46:38 PM
What happened to the days of liberal versus conservative politics? The liberals seem to have left American politics all together.
I have come to this conclusion based upon much reading recently concerning politics. Just look at Politico.com’s article about Senator Reid, a Democrat from Arizona and the Senate Majority leader.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0309/20560.html
He is upset that there are too many conservatives in the Supreme Court and they need to be balanced out by installing more moderates.
Shouldn’t conservatives be balanced out by installing more liberals?
Oh, I get the joke. All Democrats have been reborn as moderates. Since moderates occupy the center of the political spectrum, then anyone to the right of them would be by definition conservative. How unfortunate for anyone who deems themselves as a liberal, in the tradition of Thomas Jefferson.
So why would apparent liberals prefer to define themselves as moderates?
Oh, I get the joke. Liberals prefer to be defined as moderates because by re-centering the political spectrum to the left, this makes conservatives so far from the “moderates” that their position would be considered extreme.
So why would the Democrats want conservatives to be considered extreme?
Oh, I get the joke. We all know, extreme behavior is a form of insanity. Hey that means that all conservatives are actually insane. How could any sane person hold an opinion in opposition to the thoughtful, intellectual, “moderates?” If conservative thought is insane then it should be regulated to protect the innocent public from catching this form of insanity.
Interesting how conservative thought is the only contagious mental illness according to the “moderates.”
Oh how I miss debating liberals, if only they would return.