Letters to the Editor
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Those Flakey Hippies
With their radical agenda of smoking dope and being "far out." If only Carter and Mondale and Dukakis hadn't pushed that radical agenda, if only their campaign slogans weren't "everyone should smoke dope and be far out," they would have trounced the Republicans.
Luckily, Bill Clinton saved the Democratic party by repudiating dope-smoking and far-out-being, as well as tree-hugging and such.
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@bucky
I agree that beating these Republicans is the main issue
It's that, but also a lot more than that.
We need to establish Democratic leadership that is primarily concerned with respecting the voting public and the principles of compromise and governing from the middle, and we need to culturally frown on radicalism for radicalism sake and people who are just fringe trouble makers, both left and right.
And if Democrats do that, the right will lose elections and then have to follow to the middle. We'll all get more done, and the country will be able to evolve more smoothly, and rapidly, than if we keep up the radical stops and starts, lunges back and forth.
And history shows that over time, people do move to the left. You could say the left is often a bit ahead of the curve, the middle is on the curve, and the right a bit behind. But if the left over-reaches, the middle and right become reactionaries and jerk away.
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Desert Son
Sadly, I must now be blunt. Though I agree with almost nothing I've read in your posts since you've joined the discussion, you have been, in your interaction with me, at least civil, and for that I am grateful. However, I suspect you won't want to interact with me much in the future, as I am one of those "cowards" who hasn't seen fit to declare my voting allegiance despite the arrival of the campaign season, something you have decried on several occasions in past weeks. I'm also a fan of Glenn's work and while I don't always agree with every point he makes, I often agree with much he has posted, and therefore also, no doubt, fall into that category of Glenn's "cabal" you mentioned recently. In fact, just today I received my official "Glenn Greenwald Fan Club Inner Circle Membership Certificate!"
You are no coward, and the comment was not addressed to you. It was addressed to the very small group you see attacking and slimming people each day here. I call them the cabal, but I never call them Glenn's cabal --- what an insult that would be to Glenn. They attacked me over Ron Paul but would not say who they could support. As I recall, you never attacked me personally on the Ron Paul issue, or any other issue.
I am happy to hear you do not agree with me on issues --- that means you can disagree without becoming disagreeable. Bravo. Would it not be nice if all here were as forthright and polite as yourself? I think so.
I do disagree with your post in one regard. You are much more interested in politics than the average person; just the fact you read Glenn each day shows that. I know people in this town who can not name even one of the state's Senators.
I also disagree about the interaction --- that is up to you as I always answer people. That is what causes the trouble; I often answer back. I did stop on LWM when he started that silly crap of posting as 'anonymous' as if it were not obvious.
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What do you mean "we," white man?
We need to establish Democratic leadership that is primarily concerned with respecting the voting public and the principles of compromise and governing from the middle, and we need to culturally frown on radicalism for radicalism sake and people who are just fringe trouble makers, both left and right.
And another thing... FOAD.
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@ RealName
If I thought for a moment ....
Best you left it at that.
Cheers,
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@certifiedprepwn3d
ondelette - if you are still working on the thinking in metaphors thing- I am working on something on that topic for the choco'bang - it will probably be a day or two. But, wanted to thank you for formulating the questions here at the comment page - food for thought.
I missed the choco'bang set up, can I get a reference?
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Healthy Skeptic, The Man Behind The Myth
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Dean Broder is here!
We need to establish Democratic leadership that is primarily concerned with respecting the voting public and the principles of compromise and governing from the middle, and we need to culturally frown on radicalism for radicalism sake and people who are just fringe trouble makers, both left and right.
And if Democrats do that, the right will lose elections and then have to follow to the middle. We'll all get more done, and the country will be able to evolve more smoothly, and rapidly, than if we keep up the radical stops and starts, lunges back and forth.
And history shows that over time, people do move to the left. You could say the left is often a bit ahead of the curve, the middle is on the curve, and the right a bit behind. But if the left over-reaches, the middle and right become reactionaries and jerk away.
-- healthyskeptic
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another blog - - one where healthyskeptic would be quite at home
http://theconservativevoice.com/article/12045.html
The Conservative Voice
Emulating the GipperFebruary 02, 2006
Reagan is the greatest president we ever had, and possibly will ever have, for three reasons: 1) his unapologetic discernment between good and evil, 2) his empirical wisdom as it pertained to Communism, and 3) his ability to unmistakably identify the enemy of our culture and national security.
. . . When he was governor of California, Reagan did not differentiate between overseas Communists and spastic, homegrown maggot-infested Communist-sympathizers in Berkeley. While most moderates would dismiss the crowd as an assortment of youthful, peace-loving hippies, Reagan saw them for what they were – an animalistic mob of treasonous terrorist insurgents allied with foreign intelligence agents in Cuba and North Vietnam, armed with rifles, shotguns, dynamite and Molotov cocktails who set off bombs, threw rocks, assaulted policemen and Navy recruiters and tried to claim University-owned land as their own. Reagan rightly called the angry savages "brats," "freaks," and "cowardly fascists," and had specifically campaigned against "the mess in Berkeley."
. . . Like Reagan, what makes our current president so exceptional is his uncompromising discernment between good and evil, as manifested by his 2002 "axis of evil" speech which was deeply reminiscent of Reagan.
- - theconservativevoice.com
Fear and hatred of "hippies" isn't centrist moderation.
It's putrid vitriolic Reaganism.