Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
BBC News has more: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27774102
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Oligonicella on Monday June 09 2014, @11:12PM
Actually, both parties are committing suicide and it's about time. We need people who have rational thought, not extremists from the right and left.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Monday June 09 2014, @11:39PM
I have sadly failed to witness the left-wing extremist policies since 2009.
False equivalences...
(Score: 2) by Oligonicella on Tuesday June 10 2014, @04:04AM
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday June 10 2014, @07:06AM
Humor me with a list.
(Score: 2) by Yog-Yogguth on Tuesday June 10 2014, @11:40AM
Everything including everything you attribute to the right and then add some more, and the next time power "changes" back those on the right will continue adding stuff to such "god's work". That's the list.
It's clearly visible from the other side of the Atlantic ocean and maybe it's equally visible from the other side of the Pacific ocean, could be a perspective thing (because it is a very big list).
It's so big that America has become invisible and presumed dead, some lost sight of it all the way back in the 60ies while others among us could still see it as recently as a few years ago and thought they were only exaggerating because it's hard to believe something like that when you can still see the opposite of what they say (at least partially).
Look at a sheet of paper -sideways- if you don't get why.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Darth Turbogeek on Tuesday June 10 2014, @12:46AM
The USA has an extreme left wing mainstream party? Colour me suprised, I thought it was just shades of retard right to passable not evil right.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by lhsi on Tuesday June 10 2014, @07:52AM
This is correct. Form what I can tell, "left" in the USA just means "not as right as the other guy": http://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2012 [politicalcompass.org]
Pre-emptive link to the FAQ answer regarding this: http://www.politicalcompass.org/faq#faq21 [politicalcompass.org]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 10 2014, @11:02AM
The terms have always been relative. Only in the interest of circumscribing, managing, and limiting debate, has any society's leaders treated them as empirical, so to say "you're either with us or against us".
(Score: 1) by Zappy on Tuesday June 10 2014, @07:48AM
I was unaware the US had any left politics, it's just right, and extremely ridiculously over the top right with a touch of moron.
(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Tuesday June 10 2014, @07:56AM
Oh no, we do, just don't mention the word 'socialism' or everyone gets their panties in a bunch.
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