Reply #7: I tend to see it more as a "sound of one hand clapping" thing [View All]

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I think we need the right as well as the left -- but that said, something has gone seriously wrong on what passes today as the right.

If the right merely consisted of people of a conservative temperament, it would serve the useful functions of skeptic, devil's advocate, or counter-balance to the more hare-brained schemes of the left.

Unfortunately, there's also the matter of class warfare -- and the right has always been dominated by the people of great wealth and the corporations, rather than the sturdy, non-nonsense, rock-ribbed small town types we might hope for.

The CIA also figures heavily in the history of the right -- particularly from the 1950's to the 1970's -- and helped introduce a certain unscrupulousness and the sense that liberals were no different from communists and it was fine to rig elections, smear reputations, and do anything else that was handy to keep them out of power.

So it might be desirable to get rid of the current crop of right-wingers -- but if we do, we're going to have to haul out the hydroponic tanks and start breeding a superior and less toxic strain of right-wingers to replace them.