Saw some posts earlier today about the "right", the "left", the "Nazis", the "commies", etc., and I thought I'd illustrate the whole thing more clearly:
The odd thing is that we're arguing even as we agree on the same general principles of what is "good" and what is "bad". The vast majority of us agree that freedom is good and oppression is bad. The political spectrum is not linear, but rather circular: the "extremes" end up merging into the same totalitarian crap... The danger is not whether people go "left" or "right", but rather when they descend to the bottom and cherish a "strong government"...
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The issue is, in the US we really know so little about world affairs that labels aren't any use to use as categorizations or methods of understanding philosophies. We use them as weapons, pummeling and cutting anyone we don't like with misused, non-understood, meaningless labels in an attempt at what I guess is schoolyard jockeying. In the end, everyone ends up looking like fools.
