LINK: Interesting post by Harry at Harry's Place on what 10 years of Blair have meant for the the left in Britain. I find the dual contentions that Blair can easily attack the left as being a kind of force for small-c conservatism and the general failure of leftist criticisms of Blair to seriously affect him to have some parallels to America: I certainly find it easy to attack people on the left on a wide variety of issues, and I think the first fact is largely begot by the second. That is to say, if it weren't the case that so much leftism is small-minded and anti-, rather than pro- (compare vituperation of Bush to love for Kerry), it wouldn't be so easy to take shots at the Democratic Party and other further left elements.
Also, I'm a fan of the idea of 'Christian democratic centrism' in all its forms.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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