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Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend]
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Mon, 8 Dec 2003 20:33:59 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote:

   I say as long as the pendulum doesn’t get too far to either extreme, we’ll do pretty much okay. Right now Dubya and cronies are taking it too far one way, and people are starting to balk.

I would analyze the “swing to the right” in the US a little differently. We have been moving very left in about all ways for the past decade, and now that things are heading back to the right, the Left is crying about the departure. We are hardly very far past middle at this point, but it may seem like a long way from a view on the far left.

JOHN



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  Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend]
 
(...) Beyond the current political issues, do we agree on the base axiom that there is a 'pendulum motion' in the course of events--in the physical world, we could look to nature, in which, when the rabbit population increases, the 'predators of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
  Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend]
 
(...) I would suggest that, based on anything visible in the past few elections, it's hard to say that the population is moving to the Right. The 2000 election (with very high turnout) showed a Centrist tend with a split straight down the middle (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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  Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend]
 
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: snip (...) That Mike P--he's got lotsa stuff worth coveting! I think, for most aspects of life, there is this 'pendulum motion'Dark ages to 'enlightnement', from '50's nuclear family to '60's 'free (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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