Is there anything the Right is right about?

[ksen]

We were sold a bill of goods called "supply side economics." The theory was if you let the investor class keep more of their money they would turn around and invest it so that more and better jobs would be created.

It didn't happen.

Now we're told that if we just "drill baby drill" we'd become energy independent and oil/gas prices would come back down to earth.

It also isn't happening.

A U.S. oil glut? Yes, it's true!

So here we are in the midst of an oil glut. And are gas and heating oil prices going down? No, they continue to go up.

Yeah yeah, I know . . . oil is fungible, world market, blah blah blah.

Those things are all true and they were true when the Right was trying to sell us on "drill baby drill."

 

[J842P]

Anyone who says that oil-prices are going anywhere but up is either dishonest or deluded.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Well, that question is kind of like asking if there are any good things in the Books.

there are some nice ideas, decent literature, compelling imagery. But it's all wrapped up in a book that's supposedly supplied by, inspired by or dictated by this whimsical, hateful, whack ass of a divine being who sponsored the nice stuff AND a lot of whack ass stuff, so it's hard to say one thing is good without at least a little bit validating the idea of a baby-killing skybeast.

Right now, the main political theme of the Right is to be opposed to the Left. It's like they cannot say 'the sun rises in the East' without adding some spin about 'as God intended' or 'to spite the liberal West Coast' or 'so therefore we should not tax capital gains.'

So to say 'the Right is correct about' requires some precision quoting and quick reflexes.

 

[Samhain]

You know, I kind of wonder what an oil glut even means in today's economy. Considering that peak oil has probably already occurred and we haven't really done much to move ourselves to alternative energy sources yet, I feel like there's really no place for the price to go but up.

What you have to remember is that our economy is now globalised, for better or worse. With that in mind it wouldn't make much sense for our prices to go down merely because we are producing more, rather you must look at the aggregate of all oil production to determine how the shifts in price might occur.

 

[rousseau]

The right is right about some things, but the people who the right is comprised of are mostly wrong about most things.

I've come to believe that the wrong types of people are attracted to rightist parties.