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Saturday, April 27, 2013

Myths of the Political Left and Right Exposed

So I actually do write some stuff myself, it's not all just posts of other people's writings, but i'm real selfish with my own writings, i don't like to share them with people, but i thought i would share this with ya all , just to prove there is something original going on in my mind after all, here ya go



The myth of the political right is the myth of the long past and long lost golden age  of the nation of the religion or whatever, that everything was better back then, that if only we could stick to the principles of the constitution then everything would be better, even the maintenance of the status quo would be at the left limit of the political right, if we could just keep things the same, not change anything, republican obstructionism, than that would be the best possible state of affairs,

the myth of the political left is the myth of  the future utopia, the myth of progressivism, that things were worse back than and that if only we change things for the better of course, change itself is assumed to be good in itself in this mindset, much less how are we going to change, that then we will have the best possible state of affairs, or if not the best possible, at least better than it was back then, this is the myth that I seem to subscribe to, all progressives must subscribe to this myth, while all conservatives must, I think subscribe tto that myth as well

more on these points later