Column:Bush term will shift U.S. left By Dustin Habermann

Kerry is as capitalist and authoritarian as any American president in the last 50 years despite Republican claims of his liberalness.

The truth is, the right has been winning for some time now, and that lie is a perfect example. After successfully taking over the Republican Party and polarizing the two available American political platforms, the lie has pulled the Democrats to the right in a frighteningly systematic manner. The Democratic primary of 2004 boasted only two candidates who could claim to be left-wingers. Kerry, of course, wasn’t one of them. …

Unfortunately, this election once again proves that attempting not to scare the center by denying our leftness just doesn’t work. Hiding behind a facade of centrism is just a denial of the fact that the center is already in the hands of the enemy. …

[Americans] need to see the neo-conservative agenda fail. They need to see their economy crumble. They need to see poor children starve. They need to see terrorists attacking us from all sides. They need to see their sons and daughters led into war after war. They need to see the skies blacken and the seas become poison. …

Who better to make a nation of progressives than Bush?