Open Left

Are there any idealogical distinctions anymore

or is is just a question about who is for sale and who is an "idealist?"

I know there some people who favor violence as a first resort, who call themselves "hawks," but I bet a lot of them are just already sold to the military industrial complex, so I'm not even sure that favoring aggression counts as ideology.

It's hard for me to think up any left/right issue split that does not eventually come down to a struggle between the rich and not rich.

Sometimes the rich run for office to protect their wealth.

Sometimes the not rich run for office and sell themselves to the rich.

Sometimes the rich run for office and do the right thing. (FDR!)

And occasionally, the not rich run for office and remember what it was like for them before. Now, that's my representative Woolsey, who I cannot say enough good things about lately.

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by: Mark Wallace @ Fri Jul 10, 2009 at 15:18:30 PM CDT