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Published Letters: 27
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"At least the far-left progressives were honest. They genuinely despised the mid-century American liberals, whom they viewed simply as another species of bourgeois imperialists. This is another one of the reasons I dislike the term "progressive." Why should I call myself by the name preferred by deluded radicals who despised the New Deal and the Great Society liberals I admire?"
Honest indeed. Finally a spokesman for American liberalism admits that they are not part of the Left. If only they would admit that "the Center" is just a code-word for mainstream conservatism, then they might be just as honest. Just so you know, those "deluded radicals" are the only reason there was a New Deal, which was FDR's way of avoiding a real revolution---and LBJ was an imperialist pig.
"...to be active consumers once again."
I am with you except on this point. If that's the goal again, then the basic problem has not even been touched. We need an economy that doesn't exist for its own sake, which is what the consumer-based mentality is about---not satisfying human need or want, to say nothing of the wider world, but boosting the economy. An economy that HAS to grow in order to exist at all is fundamentally unsustainable, no matter how many feel-good green technologies you got running it.
