Reply #171: Moderate takes too much time to do what we know we should. [View All]

[LeahMira]

I'm TIRED of that I stand for plenty of things, I just don't follow the left-right line on EVERY issue.

Very few people are totally left or totally right. These days, though, there really is not a far left constituency in this country. When you compare the American left with the European or Canadian left, our left looks "moderate" or a bit to the right.

Usually, the "moderate" position is to take baby steps, not to do something all at once, to be patient and understand that change takes time. The far right doesn't seem to be patient. Once they get into power, they pull the country to the right as fast and as much as they can. Look at all that Bush has done in three years!

I think that if you were a person who is a minority, you would understand that being patient is not a good plan. Most minorities in the US have been patient for decades and centuries. How much longer shall they be patient? I think that if it were your right to marry, your right to vote, or your right to live where you wish, you would not be patient... especially when others already have these rights and many more.

I don't think it is a good plan to stay in Iraq, wait for June 30 to roll around, and then wait for elections the following January. The Iraqi people have the absolute right to sovereignty in their own nation. They may certainly need UN help to rebuild, but the US was wrong to invade and IMO it's stupid and wrongheaded to "be patient" and imagine that "change takes time." We need to do the right thing immediately and get out. They have waited for decades for their freedom and they need it now.

Domestically, people need health care. We as a nation can dicker around trying to decide on the right plan, but the people who are sick right now don't want to wait for the right plan. They need help now. Canada has a good system, and there's no reason we couldn't put that system into place now. We can always tweak it later on, but those who can't get care need it now.

Sometimes, I think moderates just want to go slowly because they are hoping people will get so discouraged that they'll give up and go on with the busyness of their lives. Again, the far right has no problem doing what they want now. So what's wrong with the far left?