Right Nation

Lease

By Adrian Wooldridge,John Micklethwait

Struggling through this book at the moment to see if there is anything that I missed that led to the creation of JesusLand.

The short answer is 'not so far'.

I don't think that any culture outside of the US is geared to see conservatism and liberalism in quite the same way. Hard to describe, but scary.

MCSF

That is because you are a commie hippe faggot.

Lease

There is a saying that goes:

'If a man is not a socialist at 18, he has no heart. If he is still a socialist at 40, he has no brain.'

Heartless, or brainless, you choice...........

Chicks don't count or there would a .......was a chauvenist........

viges

I'm a Bollinger Bolshevik.

Neil_s

This subject about politics pops again and again on this board :D

I was a socialist at 18, still am a socialist at nearly 30, i'm more than half way to become a mad man.

But wait, we are in for socialism once again - look at Italy!

forzaminardi

please, what you see in italy isn't really socialism

i'm a centrist and proud of it ;)

MCSF

I voted for Ronaldus Maximus at 18 and have moved farther to the right since!

Soon Neil and I will meet at the opposite end of the circle!

Neil_s

but if we meet at the opposite end of the circle......

nah i don't think so... political spectrum is like a horizontal line not a circle...

or not?

if it is a circle, where are the centrists??? at the centre or somewhere on the line????

Biker

Originally posted by Neil_s
but if we meet at the opposite end of the circle......

nah i don't think so... political spectrum is like a horizontal line not a circle...

or not?

if it is a circle, where are the centrists??? at the centre or somewhere on the line????

Neil: I think Quig means the earth with his circle. When he moves right and you left you would meet at the other side of the world. (if you start at the same point, which you don't.......). Commies respect the law of gravity don't they? Otherwise bot of you would be 'pigs in space'.;) (en jullie zouden in de ruimte lullen, wat soms ook weer waar is...)

Neil_s

Centrists like RJ are at the middle of the earth's sphere then with a lot of heat to meddle with!

viges

Extremists at both ends are fascists (National 'Socialism', anyone?).

Much like the modern day religious fundamentalists (Christian, Jew and Muslim) who have a lot more in common with one another than the rest of us.

You may believe you are absolutely right. I have the right to disagree.

Biker

Originally posted by viges

You may believe you are absolutely right. I have the right to disagree.

That's the tricky part: you believe you have the right to disagree

[Edited on 1-6-0606 by Biker]

bernie

I haven't been this entertained since I saw a production of "Waiting for Godot"

VLADIMIR:
I'm glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever.
ESTRAGON:
Me too.
VLADIMIR:
Together again at last! We'll have to celebrate this. But how? (He reflects.) Get up till I embrace you.
ESTRAGON:
(irritably). Not now, not now.
VLADIMIR:
(hurt, coldly). May one inquire where His Highness spent the night?
ESTRAGON:
In a ditch.
VLADIMIR:
(admiringly). A ditch! Where?
ESTRAGON:
(without gesture). Over there.
VLADIMIR:
And they didn't beat you?
ESTRAGON:
Beat me? Certainly they beat me.
VLADIMIR:
The same lot as usual?
ESTRAGON:
The same? I don't know.
VLADIMIR:
When I think of it . . . all these years . . . but for me . . . where would you be . . . (Decisively.) You'd be nothing more than a little heap of bones at the present minute, no doubt about it.

I would like to hear more about the book Lease. I just finished James Risen's Book. "State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration"

There was no mention, I should add, of George "I'm the decider" Bush speaking to God. But "that makes perfect sense to me, don't you agree?"

Oh, damn, now we're back at the Theatre of the Absurd!