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Sun Jul-24-05 03:16 PM
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Who ever allowed ourselves to be classified as the "Left" as in left behind, etc...and allowed them to perpetrate that they are the "Right"..as in correctness, etc? All I have to say is that was a bad move when we allowed this classification to stick.
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Sun Jul-24-05 03:25 PM
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at least back to the 1930's in this country. Repubs started their current media smear tactics during the Roosevelt years.
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Lydia Leftcoast
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Sun Jul-24-05 03:29 PM
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2. It actually goes back to nineteenth century France, when the |
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conservatives sat on the right side of the legislative chambers and the liberals sat on the left.
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Sun Jul-24-05 03:33 PM
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4. Well since we hate all things French these days |
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Wonder if we could convince them to change it?:evilgrin:
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Sun Jul-24-05 03:40 PM
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5. 18th Century - Specifically 1789-1799, the years of the French Revolution. |
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" The terminology of left-right politics was originally based on the seating arrangement of parliamentary partisans during the French Revolution. The more ardent proponents of radical revolutionary measures (including republicanism, secularism and natural rights) were commonly referred to as leftists because they sat on the left side of successive legislative assemblies. These original references are still relevant, and one will find that left-wing political organisations together with liberal democratic organizations are more likely to support these measures compared to right-wing parties (especially christian democratic and conservative parties), which often tend to support a monarchy for a head of state, religious laws and state churches, and nationalism over universal rights." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics
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Sun Jul-24-05 03:31 PM
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3. If my memories from 10th gr world history are correct |
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it comes from the seating arrangement in parliament during the french revolution. The liberal usually sat in the left and the conservatives in the right.
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