- 18 Aug 2010 13:52
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Funnily enough, you can go to an NHS hospital too, not just "your neighbour". According to your absurd logic, no-one benefits from this - everyone's "neighbour" does though. Can you really, honestly, not accept that the NHS is far, far superior to the American health system?
OK, have it your way. Where was Augusto Pinochet in your "Universal" left/right spectrum? He introduced Chicago-school economic "freedom", rabidly opposed communism, and cited Friedman as a major influence...
...however, he also murdered his political opponents, and set up a totalitarian dictatorship. The idea that Pinochet can be placed next to Stalin is not only ludicrous, it is childish.
Left and right are not universal terms, and you can't redefine them however you please, and parade your brilliance as arrogantly as you do. Anyway, if your "spectrum" is totally free of dogma, why do totalitarians have to be on the LEFT? Why not a North/South line, completely devoid of political buzzwords?
and hands it to your neighbor so he can go to an NHS hospital.
Funnily enough, you can go to an NHS hospital too, not just "your neighbour". According to your absurd logic, no-one benefits from this - everyone's "neighbour" does though. Can you really, honestly, not accept that the NHS is far, far superior to the American health system?
Then your "left & right" is meaningless since there is no opposites in your political spectrum of opposites.
OK, have it your way. Where was Augusto Pinochet in your "Universal" left/right spectrum? He introduced Chicago-school economic "freedom", rabidly opposed communism, and cited Friedman as a major influence...
...however, he also murdered his political opponents, and set up a totalitarian dictatorship. The idea that Pinochet can be placed next to Stalin is not only ludicrous, it is childish.
Left and right are not universal terms, and you can't redefine them however you please, and parade your brilliance as arrogantly as you do. Anyway, if your "spectrum" is totally free of dogma, why do totalitarians have to be on the LEFT? Why not a North/South line, completely devoid of political buzzwords?