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Originally Posted by dantonac
I have always despised Bill and Hill for being the poll watching, stand for nothing idiots they are. Never understood what the left saw in them.
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May I just say, once, for the record, that the use of the phrase "the left" in an American's mouth is usually unintelligible to me? (Nothing to do specifically with you, dantonac.)
I know it's supposed to be a context-relative designation, so there's no expectation that the left in one nation should much resemble the left in any other. But there's also supposed to be something contentful in there, too -- something recognizably leftish, surely. But few American contexts, in particular not the Democrat platform, hold enough that's recognizably leftish to warrant that term over any number of more accurate ones.
Consider a metaphor that is doubly
a propos: Something strictly relationally true might be expressed by "Turquoise is to the red of navy" -- but only someone with a weird-ass preoccupation with redness would choose such an uninformative way of putting things. It's fair to say: Well, sure -- but neither of them has anything interesting to do with red.