Originally Posted by
Stavros
What puzzles me is why 'the left', by which I mean mostly the socialist/social democrat parties in Europe, but only in a limited sense of the word to the US Democrats, have not been able to defeat (indeed, have been defeated by) those parties and politicians emerging from a fringe which at least has some connection to the Libertarians opposed to Government and taxation -and wonder, is it because the one thing that the Democrats were and have been terrified of -RISK- has become attractive?