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{"id":26288,"date":"2013-10-23T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.occasionalplanet.org\/?p=26288"},"modified":"2015-11-18T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T16:47:04","slug":"is-the-extreme-right-mean-spirited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occasionalplanet.org\/2013\/10\/23\/is-the-extreme-right-mean-spirited\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the extreme right mean-spirited?"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the false equivalencies promoted by the media is that being mean [Republicans] is equal to being nice [Democrats]. Yes, I\u2019m simplifying, perhaps oversimplifying, but it sure does seem that the Republican Party takes positions that are mean (doing harm to a class of people), while Democrats want to improve the quality of life for virtually all sectors of our society.<\/p>\n
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Food stamps are no longer necessary.<\/td>\n
Food stamps are essential for those who otherwise would go hungry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Employment programs are not necessary because the free market will automatically create jobs.<\/td>\n
The only sure way to provide jobs for citizens is that the federal government is the employer of last resort.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Americans can always find good health care because the emergency room is always open.<\/td>\n
Good and affordable health care is essential for Americans and can best be guaranteed by a \u201cMedicare for all\u201d system.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
On the one-hand it is sloppy analysis to make sweeping generalizations, but on the other hand, recent votes in Congress have been almost exclusively along partisan lines.\u00a0 The data would seem to indicate the polarity of the positions that the two parties take towards one another.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to keep in mind that if one interprets polarity as two extremes, equally far removed from the center, it would be incorrect.\u00a0 Being thoughtful towards others should be a bulwark of our culture; being mean should be the aberration.\u00a0 So far the American electorate are having difficulty recognizing this juxtaposition in which one party is clearly more at fault than the other.\u00a0 The body politic seems to prefer \u201ca pox on both of your houses\u201d rather than the analytical thinking of someone like \u2026.. Paul Krugman<\/a>, op-ed columnist of the New York Times.<\/p>\n