Why I jumped ship to the left
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We could say the same for egalitarianism. Good intentions and all.
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That reminds me, I believe I am currently "registered" as a Republican. In Texas, you don't actually stay registered to one political party, instead they list your party based on which party's ballot you asked for in last primary election in which you voted.
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In the last Senatorial primary in Mississippi they had a run-off election between Thad Cochran an old-style Southern conservative Republican and a tea-party wingnut. The wingnut might have won the Republican nomination but the African-American community, realizing that no Democrat would get elected to that office, came out in droves to vote for Thad on the Republican ballot. The only stipulation under Mississippi law is that the person you vote for in the primary should be the one you vote for in the general election if he or she wins. Most didn't have a problem with that. The Democratic candidate was a jerk who was elected to the Congress on Obama's shirt tale but opposed everything Obama tried to do.
The Tea-Party candidate Chris McDaniel accused Cochran voter fraud because so many Democrats voted in the Republican primary. But that is legal in Mississippi. All he could really say is that too many black people showed up to vote.
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I'm much the same. I was pretty centrist by the standards of my childhood (Bush the Greater and Clinton) but republicans have largely abandoned the principles of fiscal responsibility and competent governance. I respected Bush's reluctance to turn the Gulf War into regime change. He made a commitment to not get us into a war with no exit strategy and he stood by that. I probably would have gone the other way on that decision, but it was a principled, rational stand. He was willing to do what needed to be done too. When he took office, he had made a commitment not to raise taxes, but faced with the facts that the boom wouldn't last forever, he eventually realized that he had to choose between a spiraling deficit or a package that would include some revenue provisions. Rather than fall on an ideological sword, he chose the good governance option. Fast forward to W's time and you have an immediate move to kill the surplus through those silly "stimulus checks" he sent out, then continue down the road of "deficits don't matter" with unfunded tax breaks for the rich.
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Oh, even the hard liners have had to change it and add an "almost". Seems a preponderance of facts an evidence CAN find a chink in ideological armour.
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It's in fact saying that our nation's signature on treaties and our pledge to follow the international laws mean nothing. Though we love getting involved when other countries break their word.
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Our Australian equivalent to your Democrats is the Labor Party. I have a hard time voting for Labor because of its hard line in favour of abortion, pushing the homosexual agenda (including homosexual marriage), ability to spend money on social services like it's going out of fashion, inability to balance the national budgets, alignment with the Trade Union movement, etc. It has a splendid array of social services that are so delightful that balancing the budget is a fantasy.
The opposition (equivalent to your Republicans) is the Coalition but I find that at times it shows a lack of compassion towards the deprived. There is a battle right now with asylum seekers who are being treated on the mainland and then sent offshore (Manus Island and Nauru) for processing.
When I balance both sides of politics, I find I come down on the side of the Coalition (Republican equivalent), but at times it's a tough call.
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P.S. I see that you are one of the 200,000 Americans who play cricket and you are a wicket keeper. Congratulations. Cricket is my favourite game. The Aussies commence a 3-test series in NZ tomorrow.
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For me it's a balance. I've always had issues in which I've sided with each party. I just can't abide the nativism anymore.
Unfortunately a knee injury will keep me from taking the bat in the future. But I watch the internationals often, mostly the ODIs. But I'm living what Zimbabwe is doing in the T20s.
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So where do you view the cricket in the USA? Fox Sports? Did you see the special series that Shane Warne and Satuchin Tendulkar held in the USA late last year? So you are out in the cold with regard to batting now?
I'm too old for it and am taking warfarin so I dare not be hit by a hard cricket ball. In January I was in Canberra and my son took me to the ODI between Australia and India. At the grounds, the noise was so loud that I've chosen in my older age to watch on TV rather than attend the match.
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I watch on Willow. I saw the highlights of most of that series. India's comeback was something else! I'm hoping to get my sons interested in foreign sports (well, foreign to us). I'm somewhat disillusioned with American sports. I follow a few foreign rugby competitions in addition to cricket, and I'm trying to get into watching hurling, but that's harder to come by.
God bless!
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Willow TV is a pay channel you can get on Roku or whatever streaming box you might have. They also have a great YouTube channel with loads of free highlights.
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Why would you want to? It's as boring as watching paint dry! I'm Australian, so I don't get a choice, but why would anyone in their right mind be voluntarily interested in cricket???
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But I should probably keep this in the original topic I posted! I'd love to discuss cricket in a pm or in the sports forum though!
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