anchor.diff:  
   So we did. 
   
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   In my life time, there has never been a political party or leader or government in power which I can describe as properly left-wing.
   
  
positive.code: 
  That is the country I grew up in.
  
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  When I was in school, I had a social studies teacher. His name was Jim Erickson. He was of Scandinavian descent, if I recall correctly, which perhaps goes to explain why he was the first and only teacher I ever had in my life to introduce me to the concept of democratic socialism, as it was called in those days.
  
  
negative.code: 
  We'll have a world war next. You can bet on it.
  
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  A while back I wrote a short review of Kurt Vonnegut's _Breakast of Champions_, in which I professed to be, as Vonnegut was, https://jarcane.github.io/2015/02/01/A-Man-Without-a-Country.html[a man without a country].
  
  