And I’m sure we are all grateful to elucidator for pointing out to us all what Starving Artist has already pointed out to us all in black & white. It appears that friend elucidator thinks we are too stupid to grasp what we’ve read with our very own eyes. But he is often perfidious and we all know it. Thus it need not be stressed that often.
This is my first time voting in New York State (the September primary doesn’t count) and I’m still trying to figure out the whole electoral fusion thing. What other parties can a Cuomo or Paladino voter support while the actual vote goes to either Cuomo or Paladino?
Asterion, this (PDF) is the link for the New York State Board of Elections party lines - the ones for governor are on the first page.
Hey, Right To Life Party is off the ballot. Bummer. I always used them as a good way to find which Republicans to vote for: any republican not on their party line.
I never have that problem.
I wonder whether you are delusional. The New Left (c. 1960s) was influenced by Marxism and certainly shouted down those who disagreed with them. But that strand of leftism has been in decline since: it’s last spasms were among feminists in the late 1980s.
Those folks were always pretty marginal. Contrast that to Newt Gingrich’s memo on civility from the early 1990s. Language: A Key Mechanism of Control. He explicitly persuaded Republicans to poison the well by peppering their speeches with words like, "“criminal rights, crisis, cynicism, decay, deeper, destroy, destructive, devour, disgrace” to take a selection from his lengthy alphabetic lists. Sure, the Left undermined civility during the 1960s, but conservatives in authority did much worse during the 1990s and 2000s. If you seriously care about civility, it would be better to take a less jaundiced view of it.
There was a lot of debate on health care. I don’t recall such conservative health care experts like Mark Pauly or various economists getting much vitriol. Those who lie though, are another matter. Those screaming “Death panel” deserve contempt by anybody with a passing respect for empirics and seriousness. Similarly for global warming.
Liberals are highly flexible in their outlook. They adopted the Earned Income Tax Credit, Emissions Trading and Block Grants – all ideas that emerged from the conservative side of the spectrum, before being repudiated by them later. You see liberals care about results, whereas modern conservatives focus mostly on emotive concerns. Traditional conservatives like Eisenhower and Nixon were different, but alas they are as endangered as the moderate Republican in Washington.
Finally, there are vast sections of the infospace where posturing simply doesn’t get you very far. The Brookings Institution for example regularly has colloquiums with both conservative and liberal academics. It’s conservative groups like the AEI, Cato and Heritage that are exclusively devoted to pushing the conservative party line, as opposed to policy and problem analysis. This arises naturally from the concerns of the funders.
Well golly gee, look at history! Women and blacks and fags and stuff are in the Ivy League and running whole companies, the Jews have us convinced that they’re the last bastion of intellect and humanitarianism, the 19th Amendment has not yet been repealed, I haven’t seen a nuke test or a child of rape in a coon’s age, and W. is not now President-for-Life! So it’s clear to me that the libs and their slimy media lackeys have been wielding power nonstop and overwhelmingly.