Re: "Sharpley Higher Prices"

From: RJ (re_johnson_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/13/04 

Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 01:25:19 -0400

<EskWIRED@spamblock.panix.com> wrote:

> In misc.survivalism RJ <re_johnson@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Fred B. McGalliard <frederick.b.mcgalliard@boeing.com> wrote:
>
> > > So they seem to have solved that problem by moving so far right
> > > that they no longer are conservative but rather radical.
>
> > Your analysis leaves out the hard left turn the Democrats made starting
> > in the late 1960s. So it's worthless.
>
> Your observaton about the left says nothing about the validity of his
> observation about the right.

His observation is wrong. Both parties have moved to the left, but the
Democrats have moved so much farther left that the the relatively less
move by the Republicans looks like a shift to the right.

A Republican (and most Democrats) in the 1950s would have been horrified
to imagine a Department of Education as a cabinet position. Both
parties would have regarded education matters as entirely local, or
state wide at most. Now AFAIK neither party has its elimination as a
plank.

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