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I've seen this pop up on a couple news aggregation sites the past couple weeks. A bit overly simplified, although telling, it shows the relative political positions of the current crop of presidential candidates for the 2008 US Presidency.
(taken from this site, politicalcompass.org)
It becomes evident that the political climate has taken an extremely hard shift to the right, when all but two of the Democrats running for re-election would be considered right-wing authoritarians anywhere else in the world but here in the States.
I think this could explain some of the "interesting" decisions that the Democrats have made since taking the House and Senate... stuff like Pelosi's refusal to pursue Bush's impeachment (her lack of backbone in calling for accountability being a mistake that, I hope, will blow up in her face), and the Democrats caving and granting the current administration even more domestic spying/police powers than they already had and were asking for (seriously, W T F).
Suffice to say, my initial enthusiasm over the political shift that occurred during the 2006 elections has been tempered by the slow realization that, for all intents and purposes, the "new bosses" don't appear to be any different than the "old bosses".
Same shit, just "blue" instead of "red".
(taken from this site, politicalcompass.org)
It becomes evident that the political climate has taken an extremely hard shift to the right, when all but two of the Democrats running for re-election would be considered right-wing authoritarians anywhere else in the world but here in the States.
I think this could explain some of the "interesting" decisions that the Democrats have made since taking the House and Senate... stuff like Pelosi's refusal to pursue Bush's impeachment (her lack of backbone in calling for accountability being a mistake that, I hope, will blow up in her face), and the Democrats caving and granting the current administration even more domestic spying/police powers than they already had and were asking for (seriously, W T F).
Suffice to say, my initial enthusiasm over the political shift that occurred during the 2006 elections has been tempered by the slow realization that, for all intents and purposes, the "new bosses" don't appear to be any different than the "old bosses".
Same shit, just "blue" instead of "red".