Letters to the Editor
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What?
As must distaste as I've always had to real conservatives, these new guys actually make me miss them.
-- epeoples
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Another profound truth from Glenn
What the right is doing is quite predictable but needs to be stopped.
I know he was referring specifically to the issues in the article, but I think this should be adopted as a general proposition, needing no context to still remain true.
Perhaps there are exceptions, but I doubt it.
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As must distaste as I've always had to real conservatives, these new guys actually make me miss them.
-- epeoples
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A heads up for Glenn/Salon
Unless my posts are being moderated, text, other than the the blockquotes, is disappearing into the ether. Very strange.
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@Adnoto
"What?"
Please excuse my sloppy typing and careless proofreading. I meant to say, "As MUCH distaste as I have FOR real conservatives, these new guys [Bushiite "conservatives"] actually make me miss them." That is to say, they make Nixon look all fuzzy and cuddly by comparison.
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The hidden mechanisms of conformity
Paul R. is right again. An individual sheep may know instinctively that it's not okay to wear jeans and a Pearl Jam tee shirt to a business conference , yet not have a clue where the instinct came from. The folks who do, and who set about systematically manipulating the sheep's instincts are another phenomenon altogether.
The conscious engineering of the collective superego is a relatively new fad, but from the early days of Leninism, when it had to backed up with show trials, gulags, and liquidations to the present ubiquity of morons like Joe Klein and Fred Hiatt, you have to admit that it's come a long way, baby.
The best defense against it is steadfastness, otherwise known as pig-headedness. ( And in honor of folks like Sopie Scholl, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, I should also add that in hopeless situations, it can also be called courage.)
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adnoto -- what?
Let's put it this way, the London Times (or perhaps the Guardian) on Saturday said of the French Left's reaction to Sarkozy "even his worst opponent would not suggest Bush was preferable."
Eisenhower was a conservative, so was Rockefeller, so was Ford, so was Reagan in ways, so was Bush 41 -- can you remotely suggest that they were as bad as Dubya, or even that they shared his politics?
I define myself as being on the liberal left, but I cannot agree that Bush and Co. are conservatives, they are Radicals who call themselves Conservatives, because so many Americans self-identify (and then vote) as conservatives. They secured the vote of conservatives by screaming I AM THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE AND THE OTHER GUY IS THE LIBERAL/ANTI-CONSERVATIVE. But the truth is that Bush and Co. were using the loyalty of movement conservatives to the Republican party and conservativism to "con" people into voting for a radical agenda -- they never were conservatives, in fact Gore, Kerry and the Democrats are and were more conservative in reality than Bushies, the neocons and the hijacked Republican party.
We should not call these guys Conservatives -- we should call them Radicals and Neocons and relabel the Republican Party the Radical Party.
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Scientician
Another profound truth from Glenn
-Scientician
What the right is doing is quite predictable but needs to be stopped.
-GG
A lot of Glenn's posts are for that purpose. That's one reason why he gets one commenter or another popping in with some regularity with that dopey comment that goes something like, "...and why is this surprising?" When, of course, Glenn, and usually none if any of the people who had posted comments, had voiced any surprise about the subject of the post. The point of the post is to connect the dots and keep them connected until such time that the piper is, finally, paid...in full.
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posting without reading comments
So somewhat might have already said this, if so, sorry.
It's not just that Bush is disposable. He could also be put back on a pedestal in ten or 15 years ... it's entirely dependent on what suits the needs of the movement, the noise machine can facricate a reality to suit its ideology so that no one within the movement's alternate reality ever need be bothered by such a thing as cognitive dissonance.
For all we know, in 15 years GWBush will be remembered by the movement as a great man who was stabbed in the back by America's eternal enemy the Liberal.
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A World of dewdrops, and yet...
Somewhere, maybe in a literature piece in the time period when Jean-Jacques Rousseau was in real misery(always?).
J.J.R. was a bird, and once he remained on a island confessing something...scratch thoughts on papers, not talking to humans, and I hope it him who remarked he'd "like to curse the one who said let's invent language? "Oku"- a narrow road journey of a idea...Maybe?
I'm with Paul Dirks today @7:40 ( Basho? ), and hope there are no "right-wing outburst; it is pure self-preservation"...Yes. Sorry P.D. Thanks.
I sped over the lunch-post and raced via the 'letters' and feel vulnerable with lumps of mud that got tracked into the Place. Trouble.
My these P.R. etc., are not quick lunch bites of morsels! Let's chew slow and digest...other's thoughts...
...Speed-reading comprehends very little?
Paul Dirks: First page. A request. A real Wow. Why? Yes.
*"PS (If anyone cares to argue with me, I hope they try to figure out what I said...I'm not so sure myself!)* Paul Dirks.
Somewhere it is written, "Come out from the 'herd' and be separate, different, peculiar ("odd" in a good gift unusual manner), and don't be yoked and run over a cliff (paraphrased) with a herd mob stampede."
My favorite thinkers can practice serious self-mockery. There is a inner depth that makes speaker/listener exclaim with smiles and affection, "What in hell's name are you trying to be saying?" Response. "Help me, I have no clarity, and yet..."
"Help me reflect to understand with you."
...a rambling , I say (Haiku), can have a under/overtone of a developing idea with a [linked cut/paste] idea that makes me say, "Hailhowyadoknowthat!" {H/T}...I think we innocently overly embellish language and hide behind cold rhetoric.
"Spysrog" goes behind the so-called war-barbarian dangerous borders to help me with a daily scoop (ice cream). I almost scream, "Gads, how does he do it?" Tiberius may teach what I do wish to shun...(poison oak). "Gads, the GOP can't be really this itchy to kill the whole Mesopotamia?!" Why are they so "screwy?"
...There is a real bonds of mutual trust necessary, or a 'barbarian' emerges from the unclaimed self-shadow. WORDS.
I'll go put brown clod-cake-lumps...boots on, and make a few more footprints on the balcony and hear, birds, wind, leaves, and damn lazy helpers snarl, "What in the 'dewdrop' did you spurt out at the Salon?" THEN:
"if you don't soon shut up on the web (duck) you will be a 100% know "idiot" and labeled as a verifiable baloney Basho" huh? You right.
Methinks the weeders are not to be arguing with me in mud. O, dear Bush bathers! Wear clothes. 'Um GOP will wrestle and lie in Rose Garden filled with dewdrops, and yet..
Whine in heaven? Tolerance? Sad.