Comments on: (Updated) SNP Ekes Out a Win in Scotland http://themoderatevoice.com/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Thu, 23 May 2013 14:20:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/comment-page-1/#comment-79093 DLS Fri, 04 May 2007 22:45:33 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/places/europe/united-kingdom/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/#comment-79093 > Unlike yours, my world
> is not divided between
> the Right and Left as
> different species.

Many on the Left see it that way, even if you and I do not.

> Go Quebec!

I wouldn’t have a problem with this at all.

Even fracturing this nation (USA) into more than one would make perfect sense. This continent is not homogeneous.

]]> By: domajot http://themoderatevoice.com/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/comment-page-1/#comment-79087 domajot Fri, 04 May 2007 22:11:06 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/places/europe/united-kingdom/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/#comment-79087 DLS-

Unlike yours, my world is not divided between the Right and Left as different species.

In my world, I note that people seem to need to identify with a familiar group. The debate about immigration is partially fueled, I believe, by the fear that the group to which some ar linked emotionally is changing. and this leads to feeling that one’s identity is being threatened.
In a global world, one becomes an ever tinier speck.
A nation is smaller and easier to feel a part of.

This, alien as it may be to you, is not a political observation. Nor is it an evaluation of what’s bad and good. It’s certainly not a prescription for the future.

It’s simply a passing observation on the changing world.
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Cosmo-
I don’t get what your comment means. How does this relate to Scotland’s nationalism?

]]> By: cosmoetica http://themoderatevoice.com/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/comment-page-1/#comment-79066 cosmoetica Fri, 04 May 2007 20:59:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/places/europe/united-kingdom/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/#comment-79066 Go Quebec! Let’s parse all oss territories and reassemble them better.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/comment-page-1/#comment-79054 DLS Fri, 04 May 2007 19:37:44 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/places/europe/united-kingdom/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/#comment-79054 > rise in nationalism in
> some parts of the world

You probably have Latin America on your mind.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/comment-page-1/#comment-79053 DLS Fri, 04 May 2007 19:36:59 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/places/europe/united-kingdom/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/#comment-79053 The Left has decried nationalism for decades, unless it’s politically correct (or a corruption of the concept happens to be politically correct). So does the Left think this nationalism is politically correct and deserving of support? Blair did support the war in Iraq, after all.

]]> By: domajot http://themoderatevoice.com/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/comment-page-1/#comment-79029 domajot Fri, 04 May 2007 18:25:04 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/places/europe/united-kingdom/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/#comment-79029 Just a passing thought: I wonder if the rise in nationalism in some parts of the world is related at all to the rising anti-globalization feelings.

]]> By: casualobserver http://themoderatevoice.com/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/comment-page-1/#comment-79028 casualobserver Fri, 04 May 2007 18:23:57 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/places/europe/united-kingdom/12624/updatedsnp-eeks-out-a-win-in-scotland/#comment-79028 Perhaps we should soon expect to see some crates of Earl Grey floating about Tobermory Harbor!

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