HorseSoldier
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Carolyn McCarthy ran for Congress for one reason: gun control.
So she's working her way towards a 20 year career in Congress and basically has perilously close to utter failure to show for it?
Carolyn McCarthy ran for Congress for one reason: gun control.
Her "Quits" article (she used to be director of Utah Gun Owners Alliance) is very difficult to find and Gun Law News seems to have dropped it, but similar sentiment can be seen here:How/when was she alienated?
One of the things I find most annoying about political discussions in the US is the idea that the struggle here is between the left (as represented by the Democratic party) and the right (the Republicans). To describe it as such is to drain those political labels of any historical and political meaning and make them merely synonymous with two ends of a very narrow spectrum.
When measured against its historical meanings, what the US has is a center-right party (the Democrats) and a radical right wing party (the Republicans). The idea that Barack Obama is a radical left-wing socialist is to distort the political and economic tradition of socialism by tarring it with the kinds of pro-oligarchic policies that he advocates.