Akneton:

You are mistaken in the extreme. Let me point out some of the convictions that inform the left side of our political spectrum.

We have a conviction that issues are more important than PR pushbuttons and media-driven cartoons of personality.

We have a conviction that the country is deeply in need of fundamnetal chasngte in operating policies in order to recover from the last eight or more years of white-collar crime.

We have a conviction that international relations do not have to be conducted with bullets and that violence is a shabby last resort and aconfession of failure on the part of the initiator thereof.

We have a conviction that the core synthesis that makes the nation propserous and great has been broken by abuse and needs restoring.

All of these, and many more, have been cited and stated and indicated and articulated by leaders on what you so glibly call the watered down left.

I suggest you pull your head out of whatever dark recess has been protecting it from reality and take a fresh look at what is going on.


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