Funny how it’s the far right in the USA and the FAR LEFT up North which are the most opposed to this. Strange bedfellows indeed.
Yah, they're 360 degrees apart in many respects.. ;)
Funny how it’s the far right in the USA and the FAR LEFT up North which are the most opposed to this. Strange bedfellows indeed.
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Ever since I became interested in understanding political perspectives I have been annoyed that “far left” and “far right” are treated as being as far apart as possible on a straight line. I wish the model would be a circle instead of a line. The far right and left would touch each other and the opposite side of the circle would be the “moderates” or “middle of the road” which often means people with no interest or opinion on political issues. Each side of the circle would then trend from “uninterested” to “radical/one issue.”
Not as strange as one might initially think. If you look into some of the rhetoric of the far left folks, you'll find that at the base of most of their ranting is an extreme dislike of corporatism. Unfortunately, they don't think about it enough to realize that it is not capitalism per se that is real problem and cause of the 'evil' they see, but is instead crony-capitalsm and markets distorted by government-sanctioned monopolies and a legal system that has been manipulated to favor the large corporation over the individual or private businessman.
A look at the current state of patent and copyright law is all you really need to get a really good feel for how this works.
Only when the 'left' and 'right' realize that they are pawns that have been played off each other in order to re-create what is essentially a feudal society of rulers and serfs, will we actually make any real progress. Neither republican, nor democratic politicans are the answer. Both parties have the same ultimate goal.