talking points that piss you off

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Any politician who compares the economy to one household deserves to be stretched on the rack.

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Any politician who compares the economy to one household deserves to be stretched on the rack.

^^^

This is a good one.

Dig at Thatcher? Why is it so wrong? IMHO, Macroeconomics isn't really very different from Micro, Keynes was innaccurate to say they are unconflateable, and that really was poor mathematics.

There is just one household so it can do whatever it wants but the economy has many different parts so something which is sensible for one party may hurt another. Meaning comparing them is ludicrous as they are completely different and need different approaches.

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Another really annoying one is people using words which no one would argue with to describe their views (e.g pro life, pro growth) as if their opponents are against these things.

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I realize this is a bit late but the whole "America is a republic not a democracy" is really, really irritating because the terms aren't actually mutually exclusive.

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So he is a nutty leftist, just not a nutty far-leftist?

Basically. When you know actual French far-leftists, you can easily see the difference.

Yes but France is several notches to the left of almost every other developed western nation with the exception of the Scandinavian states. Although the difference is their political discourse seems competent, whereas in France it seems like half of their politicians are still stuck in the 1790's. Melenchon would be considered a far-leftist outside of France. Even the BBC, a bastion of liberal-leftism, calls him a far-leftist, as to other such bastions like the Guardian.

By that logic dailymail is a center newspaper?

Nope. It is very right-wing. But then the Guardian is incredibly left-wing. As for the 'Independent'. The title makes me want to laugh.

The problem is that your classifying BBC as a left-wing paper, that's like saying CNN is left-wing.

But even its own commentators own up to its left wing bias. For instance Andrew Marr said "The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities, and gay people. It has a liberal bias, not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias."

I don't know much about CNN, but I thought it was centrist.

Even if we are to accept that the BBC is "culturally liberal", that is not the same thing as left wing.