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Article: GETTING IT STRAIGHT IN THE POLITICS OF TODAY, DISTINCTIONS ARE BLURRED BETWEEN `LEFT' AND `RIGHT'.(Viewpoint)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- January 2, 2000
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Byline: Robert W. Tracinski
Pat Buchanan, regarded by many as a right-wing extremist, has recently joined forces with Lenora Fulani, an avowed Marxist. This has led to many comments about strange bedfellows, but the combination is not really so strange. In fact, it is entirely in keeping with the distorted meaning now attached to the ``right'' - a meaning that has turned the right into merely a variant of the left.
Everyone knows what the left stands for: increased government intervention, from socialized medicine to public housing to environmental regulation. So it is logical the right should stand for opposition to government controls and the defense ...