Si, si puedes. Viva Ceasar!

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by CarlV

This is great! And here I thought Baja California was part of Mexico.


Carl

It is Polk forgot to steal that bit.

[catswiththum]

Originally Posted by merrylander

If you think Stalin was a leftie then that clarifies your posts.

Stalin was a successor (usurper) to the Bolshevik cause - his totalitarian methods for striving to achieve it's (his) stated goals are not isolated events in the history of failed popular revolutions.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by BorisTAnimal

I see Communism is alive and well in the land of fruits and nuts (Hopefully the San Andreas has a major conniption fit soon).

Awwww, how cute.

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by catswiththum

There is no room for the center in today's political climate. I consider myself conservative, but today that seems to have a definition not at all in line with how I think.

The majority are cajoled to line up on one side or the other for the sake of unity and expediency, ideas be damned.

The center is where most Democratic politicians and few Democratic voters reside..... but we take what we can get.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by catswiththum

Stalin was a successor (usurper) to the Bolshevik cause - his totalitarian methods for striving to achieve it's (his) stated goals are not isolated events in the history of failed popular revolutions.

Stalin was a murdering dictator and if that is left wing then I am the King of Roumania (with apologies to Dorothy Parker),

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The center is where most Democratic politicians and few Democratic voters reside..... but we take what we can get.

John I was a paid up member of the Joe Clark Progressive Conservative Party back home. Here I find the GOP somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by merrylander

Stalin was a murdering dictator and if that is left wing then I am the King of Roumania (with apologies to Dorothy Parker),

Murderous tyrannies occur on both sides of the ideological spectrum.

[donquixote99]

By their fruits shall ye know them. Government of, by and for the hereditary* aristocracy is right wing.


*except to a degree for the first generation, if a 'circulation of elites' occurs

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by Boreas

The Great Society was the lineal descendant of the New Deal.

You are a great teacher on this here site.

In the history and commemoration of Civil Rights LBJ gets short shrift.
However LBJ was a stalwart legislator.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by catswiththum

There is no room for the center in today's political climate. I consider myself conservative, but today that seems to have a definition not at all in line with how I think.

The majority are cajoled to line up on one side or the other for the sake of unity and expediency, ideas be damned.

C'mon, ever since Bill Clinton the Dems have been the center right party. That's exactly where Obama has governed from since day one of his presidency.

It's the Repubs who've shifted to the far right end of the spectrum.