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Date Posted: 19:51:42 01/11/08 Fri
Author: Deep Diction
Subject: Re: Bill's wife losing again
In reply to: SleepingHare 's message, "Re: Bill's wife losing again" on 17:40:17 01/11/08 Fri

>Neither party has a monopoly on extremism and
>violence. Environmental activists routinely spike
>trees, resulting in maimed and sometimes killed
>lumberjacks. Black power activists have openly
>encouraged and practiced violence against whites and
>the police for decades. Animal rights activists have
>threatened and attacked researchers and used
>explosives and arson to destroy laboratories. During
>the cold war communists like the Rosenberg's committed
>treason against the US. I am pretty you couldn't find
>anyone supporting these activities at a Republican
>convention, but if you went to a Democratic convention
>you would find many supporters and apologists.
>
>I personally consider myself a liberal, but in the
>classical sense, not what people use the word for
>today. I see things I like and dislike in both major
>US political parties. To claim that only one party is
>moral and logical is wrong. If you go back to slavery,
>was it not Lincoln and the Republican party that ended
>it?

The Republican Party of today bears not a shred of resemblance to the Republican Party of Lincoln's day. It basically split apart during Teddy Roosevelt's days when he got too liberal for them and created the Progressive Party out of the Republican liberals who supported him, leaving behind the far-right version of the Republican Party we have today.

And I agree that there are militant liberals, for sure... but almost every pacifist in the US identifies themselves as a liberal, and most folks who support going to war identify themselves as Republican. And proclivity toward peace or war is really just based on tolerance, or lack thereof.

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