>The crude choice dynamics emerges between an apparently positive,
>smooth, orderly, and established system of assurances and
>consistencies perpetrated by the Right, as opposed to an
>argumentative, messy, contentious, disorderly and negative Left.
The left isn't immune to the easy consistency, even at the high end. Some Marxisms purport to explain everything as emerging from the laws of motion of capital; "it is no accident that...," as the vulgar Marxists used to say (to steal a phrase from John Leonard). Your average Pacifica listener believes all kinds of conspiracy theories - Bush planned 9/11, Unocal the Afghanistan war, etc. There's no room for the messy or accidental in that sort of worldview.
Doug