Letters to the Editor
William Timberman
Published Letters: 3298 Editor's Choice: 7
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m.b.f.
[Read the article: Terrible hatred and anger on the left]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I got it. As always, thanks for your comments. Even when we (sort of) don't agree, I'm very grateful for your insights. Along with clownsense's love letters, sysprog's meticulous research, the two paul's -- rosenberg and dirks -- fierce and informed logic, Mona's proud flying of the rattlesnake flag, and the unique contributions of unnamed others, your comments make coming here a very worthwhile experience.
A deeply felt thank you to you all.
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A taxing task
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Frankly, my dear, I applaud your devotion to the truth, and admire the clarity of your presentation, but the fact remains that trying to explain the fundamentals of taxation to an American conservative is like trying to explain nuclear physics to your cocker spaniel.
They don't know what taxation is, or what it does, but they know they don't like it, and that's the end of the story for them. The only exceptions that they're willing to make are for cops and aircraft carrier battle groups, which they believe to be the only social goods a true, red-blooded American requires.
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Now or never
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Glenn, you're absolutely right. With the Democratic grip on the Senate tenuous at best, and the next election only two years away, we need to convince Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in the lower house that the best possible campaign strategy is to open as many investigations as there are committees to conduct them, and to be as confrontational as necessary in pursuing them. If congressional Democrats don't succeed in focusing the public's attention on the underlying Constitutional issue, no amount of glad-handing in their districts will help them much.
As for the DLC and DCCC, we need to grab them by the earlobe and drag them along. We also need to guard Howard Dean's back. If Rahm Emanuel, James Carville and the Clintons have their way, the public debate will be stillborn, and regardless of the outcome of the next election, our fate will be sealed.
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Moron redux
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oddly liberals can understand the idea behind stores lowering prices and making it up in volume, but not when it comes to taxes. -- shooter242
We understand tax the poor quite well, thank you. I'm sure that when the poor finally rouse themselves to throw a rope over the lamppost for you, you'll have a wee epiphany yourself.
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Down memory lane
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]I'm just using more proletarian revolutionary rhetoric. Which won't get me much of anywhere in the bourgeoisie of the Internets -- che pasa
Thanks, che. That's the funniest piece of political name-calling I've read since 1966. I kinda feel sorry for Glenn, though. What with shooter and Jerry Rubin calling him a leftist, and you calling him bourgeois, he must wonder sometimes why he bothers. Not that he'd be the first....
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Not exactly
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Dan D., you don't have to be an agent provocateur to believe that electoral politics is a weak reed to lean on in the present crisis. I believe it myself.
As I see it, though, the ineffectiveness of electoral politics is largely a reflection of the ineffectiveness of the electorate. If the majority of voters were as concerned as many of us are, and as willing to be active, I doubt that our representatives would be quite so cavalier in dismissing our concerns as they presently are. I doubt that we can persuade Washington, in other words, until we can persuade Peoria, which is necessarily a more complicated and time-consuming process, one which isn't well suited to addressing a particular crisis.
Adnoto and che either think that we haven't enough time for the larger task -- and their concern on that score may be well-founded -- or that the voters are too far gone to be persuaded. That's the point which I dispute, and which I presume Glenn does also. In the event, persuading people to join revolutionary cells in enough numbers to accomplish more than local acts of terror is at least as difficult as getting them to understand and engage in the politics of democracy. Which is more likely to accomplish the goals set forth in the Preamble to the Constitution?
It's a valid question, and I honestly don't believe that accusing che and adnoto of bad faith helps us answer it.