Left -vs- Right

[*michaelsean*]

(07-06-2015, 03:29 PM)hollodero Wrote: No it isn't...
...religion just makes claims. No one can ever proof these claims, by no means ever. People pray their whole lifes without any miracle happening to them. They just suffer, experience calamities and die like the rest of us.
Science might not be 100% accurate in many cases. But the results of science are there for everyone to see and for everyone to question.
Now one might question both concepts. But if it's about an important issue, I'd rather trust the brainy guys and the results they publish for everyone to see and examine. How so many Americans deeply disagree on that is beyond me.

Republicans are the only, the ONE AND ONLY major party in the whole wide world who (to a large part) believes that climate change is merely a hoax. And that God will take care of things. Say what you want - but even if you try to make both parties equally clever or dumb, there is only one party who has all the complete lunatics in it. Bachmann. Palin. Huckabee. Trump. We're not proud of our politicians, but none of them are that mad.
That I wanted to get off my chest for a long time now :) not to discredit all republicans. There are some smart people there, too. And some that leave the rest of the world very perplexed.

As for left and right. I don't really know any longer what these words really stand for. The US development, though - which Europe always sems to follow with 10 years delay, except for the wars -, seems to favour the rich and the powerful. They can buy politicians and elections - openly. They do not get touched, but honoured, are regarded as model US citizens, even when all their wealth results from taking jobs away from Americans and to the Chinese who poison their toys with lead while their money rests on the Caymans and so on. Doesn't matter. You're rich, you're wonderful. Your country suffers from the absence of a powerful left wing that has different answers than "everything will work out if we just help the wealthy staying wealthy". Who stand for equality. For all of our flaws - which are countless -, our alleged fascisms and whatnot, Europe has much more content citizens, less powerty, less desparation, less crime. More vacation, more free time - a kind of freedom - and opportunity due to some safety nets, healthier people, more balanced wages, no huge debts due to enormous student loans and so on. And all that is a merit of the left wing. Just a man's opinion, of course.

That having said, I hate declared left-wingers to their self-righteous, arrogant bones. But in absence they would be missed.

We've done pretty well for ourselves and produced a hell of a lot for the rest of the world, and I don't mean that arrogantly.  Just that not everyone has to do things the same.  We are the descendents of immigrants, and those immigrants didn't come here for more vacation time or free college.  We just think differently, and there's nothing wrong with that.