Reply #72: there was a great article in yesterday's NYT about the Black Congressional [View All]

[tigereye]

Caucus, and how the majority of it's membership are considerably to the left of PE Obama. That's why I found it hilarious when folks on DU derided Hillary as well to the right of Obama.


I'm somewhat left of center, and realized at one point that I've been arguing with more leftist friends and house-mates since the 80s, despite despising Reagan, conservatives, and the current admin. I tend to have more respect for institutions as a whole, have tolerance for a whole range of viewpoints, and have become somewhat more concerned with fiscal issues as I have gotten older, become a parent, and had more responsibilities in my work life. However, much of which capitalism allows -destruction of jobs, neighborhoods and livelihoods, out-sourcing, destruction of industries such as manufacturing that helped folks have better lives, obsession with the bottom line, greed, reduced business ethics and the laissez-faire attitudes about the structures that underlie ever-increasing poverty here and abroad - horrify me.