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• Monday, November 24, 2008 11:41 AM

  Why do we think we are so different?

  THIS is what scares me about the left:

  "If I get my "wish", he'll be to the left what Reagan was to the right (except without the burden of neo-cons & the Laffer curve) - the first in a stream of politicians who gradually move the country more to the left. Hell, maybe not even left; *actually* center would be a vast improvement. An election where Kucinich *doesn't* sound, comparatively, like a radical would be a refreshing change."

  After watching the right get more and more extreme over the past 20 years it boggles my mind that the left somehow thinks "it could never happen to us". The Republicans started out with Reagan and ended up with GW Bush. They followed their ideology to it's extreme and ignored reality and discarded pragmatism. Now you and others on the left want to make the exact same mistake. You see Obama as a foot in the door to get into power and push farther and farther left until the most extreme elements of the party can push ideology over practicality. Don't you see you are making the same mistake the right made? Extremism does not work. If Kucinich's policies were to be enacted overnight they would be a disaster of epic proportions. They are idealistic ideologies not grounded in the real world. I, like most Democrats want a balance between our ideals and what is possible. Reality cannot be bent by ideology. We must work in the real world and our policies should reflect that.

  —Jiggs11 Read Jiggs11's other letters
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