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I'm rediscovering American History this summer. I was fortunate to have a history teacher who defined revisionism and taught us how to identify it. But I'm finding out a lot about American History that never made it to the textbooks. Working on a post called war and pretext - trying to make sense of it all for myself.
It's ironic that both hippies and uber-conservatives such as myself can both cite Gen. Butler with pride, maybe there is a middle ground in America that will shatter the false left/right paradigm.
It's because today's right is a lot different from the Old Right. The left has changed quite a bit too.
The more I see things, the more I realize that this is a great truth.
Matt, it's so true that it's scary. As I've told you before, I was once pro-war too, but as things didn't go as we were told and lies were piled upon lies, I started rethinking it all and studying history, and our Founders were right all along. Same with Eisenhower, Robert A. Taft, Russell Kirk, FA Hayek, Ludwig von Mises ... even Goldwater and Reagan would be considered "doves" by today's standards.
There's no innocence once in get in bed with the government either, and a lot of big corporations rely on and profit from war. Then look at every collectivist/tyrannical regime throughout history ... they were always about war. Even in America during the Progressive Era, it was progressives who constantly pushed for war.
Personally I don't care for labels even though I consider myself more libertarian in political philosophy and yes that too is a label. The left/right illusion is simply that an illiusion create by those he need division. When most Americans agree on 80 percent of the issues it does mean there is room for progress.
Left and right would make sense if it hadn't been convoluted by the parties. But that's life. It's also why I try to focus on being against the state, not just against Democrats.
I would like to see our soldiers out of Iraq and Afghanistan as soon as possible. History tells us we can't win in afghanistan.
I'm neither left or right, I just hate the commie / terrorist left more. The right needs to get rid of the old and in with the new. For all you Bush haters > OBAMA is like BUSH on speed..... I also live in a police state and I'm not to happy with that either. In short, A Asian man walking his dog bite me, a cop seen the whole thing and asked me for ID and let the Asian guy go without even saying a word to him. WTF is that bull? I see that as an attack on my white a$$.