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Thread #99916 Message #1997610
Posted By: artbrooks
15-Mar-07 - 12:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: An End to American Politics as Usual?
Subject: RE: BS: An End to American Politics as Usual?
Unity(08) says that, in their opinion
Crucial Issues include: Global terrorism, our national debt, our dependence on foreign oil, the emergence of India and China as strategic competitors and/or allies, nuclear proliferation, global climate change, the corruption of Washington�s lobbying system, the education of our young, the health care of all, and the disappearance of the American Dream for so many of our people. These don't really sound like "left" or "liberal" (whatever that is) issues to me, and none of them appear to necessarily involve government growth.
And, they go on to say that by contrast, we consider gun control, abortion and gay marriage important issues, worthy of debate and discussion in a free society, but not issues that should dominate or even crowd our national agenda. These have been, it seems to me, issues that have dominated the agenda of the "right" and have precluded concentration on things that are really important.