rehabilitation of bush 2 by dems not actually that surprising, increased prominence of far-left/right makes libs/cons a natural bloc
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importance underappreciated that in past decade two mainstream parties gone from preeminent opposing sides to mutually embattled middle
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this isn't new-new, present situation a larger and more extreme next stage of dynamic of tea party and occupy
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when I was (tangentially) involved with occupy there was definitely a feeling among some there must be a way to reach out to tea partiers
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since we shared a common foe and most of the same grievances. obviously impossible in retrospect, no way to bridge that gap
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the most important difference between lib/con and left/right is former pair largely agree on a conceptual framework within which to argue
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latter pair have divergent and fundamentally incompatible understandings of reality itself, what a society is and is for
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lib/con discuss a tradeoff surface while left/right redefine axioms, it's a completely different ballgame
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