Letters to the Editor
Published Letters: 197 Editor's Choice: 20
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She'll NEVER get my vote...
[Read the article: She's in]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]...and I'm as staunch a Democrat as they come. Her constant triangulation - supporting the war, banning flag burning, joining Lieberman in his hypocritical moral crusades - betray a fundamental contempt for the intelligence of the American voter. Does she think we don't notice that she has no core principles of her own, other than "more power for Hillary"?
And yet, ironically, those contemptible, calculated attempts to appeal to the broadest portion of the electorate only demonstrate her own lack of intelligence. How can she not realize that two decades of demonization by the right and the media have rendered her utterly unelectable to the majority of voters in the heartland? And that her nomination would only motivate those who follow the religious right into never-before-seen levels of turnout, launching an avalanche of Republican votes at all levels of the ballot?
Either she doesn't know, in which case she's stupid...or she doesn't care, in which case she's arrogant and stupid. In either case, I'll cast my vote for a write-in or third party candidate before I'd vote for her. That way, when she loses and the Democrats lose the House and Senate, I'll at least have the meager pleasure of (once again) being able to say "I told you so".
(Not to mention that she has already broken her oath of office as a Senator by failing to try to filibuster the abolition of habeas corpus. Of course, EVERY Senator is guilty of the same thing, including the Republicans.)
I'll admit that if I lived in a state where my vote actually mattered, I'd be more troubled by the idea of not voting for Hillary if she won the nomination. But fortunately (?), I live in a state that's so blue that my vote on the Presidential level is absolutely meaningless.
I'll never vote for a Republican, but I've written in candidates before and I'll do it again if I must. Yes, it's throwing my vote away...but it would have been wasted anyway. At least this way I'll be taking a stand that I can be proud of. And maybe, maybe the Democratic Party "leadership" - if that's the correct word for them - will get the message.
But I sincerely hope that Ms. Clinton tanks in the primaries, so I won't have to make that choice.
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HEY!!!
[Read the article: In the Navy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]How about an NSFW? I just lost my job for watching that!
Okay, not really, but it could happen. Orgasmic moans and stills of semi-naked women...no, not work-safe.
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What were you THINKING?
[Read the article: Camille's back!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Congratulations, Salon. I didn't think you could do it. You've actually got me seriously thinking about not renewing my subscription.
And mind you, I've been a paying subscriber from the first - AND have given several gift subscriptions, besides. From the general reaction here, it seems I'm not the only one who's less than thrilled by this idiotic decision.
What were you THINKING?
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Worth noting...
[Read the article: It could happen here]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Joe, I tried to send this as feedback, but there seems to be a glitch; the contact/feedback page comes up at "you do not have permission to view this page".
I don't know if you read these comments, but I hope so.
I wanted to point out something that you might find interesting, given the (admittedly fascinating) subject of your book: there was an extremely prescient movie made on that theme, the fall of democracy in America.
It was called "Shadow On The Land", and was made for television in 1968. The parallels to the Bush Administration are fascinating, as is the perversion of American symbolism into fascistic forms. For example, the new US flag features a two-headed bald eagle, with both claws clutching a brace not of arrows, but of nuclear missiles. The presentation of a near-future American dictatorship was stunning, and stuck in the head of everyone I know who ever saw it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063589/
Unfortunately it's extremely rare now, even though it featured popular actors such as Gene Hackman, John Forsythe, and Jackie Cooper. Sony, the current owner of the film, does not plan to offer a DVD of it.