Good morning, Robert! Robert Goodman wrote to everyone...
> A few days ago libertarian friend John Pachak here in NYC told me of a > trend he'd noticed in the USA extending from the 1960s or possibly even the > 1950s. He said the camps of "left" and "right" (and maybe other opposing > camps as well) used to be more willing to listen to each other (i.e. of the > opposite camp), to treat each other as sincere and with some important > concerns and facts on their side, and that that no longer seems to be the > case. He sees the camps as having drawn increasingly away from each other > and inward to the extent that they now look at each other with complete > distrust, not just honest good-faith disagreement. Do you remember the hostility generated in the Goldwater campaign in the mid-1960s? I would suggest much civility was involved on the socialist side against Goldwater, although I would suggest that the Goldwater campaign was far more civil than Johnson's was at the time. And then there is the notion that many have today that there is no left or right at least in terms of defining which side really comes down on the side of limited government any more. Probably the last major Administration to even give lip service to that ideal was Ronald Reagan during his first term in office. It is difficult to differentiate even how it might be possible to ascertain whether a John Kerry administration would have differed a great deal from the fascist regime we currently have in place (and growing exponentially) today. But that's a separate issue. Kindest regards, Frank > > I'm a little younger than he is, and I can't say whether that's really the > case, or whether we're just prone (for some reason) to view the past as a > time of greater civility of discourse. > > In Your Sly Tribe, > Robert > _______________________________________________ > Libnw mailing list > Libnw@immosys.com > List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw > Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw > > _______________________________________________ Libnw mailing list Libnw@immosys.com List info and subscriber options: http://immosys.com/mailman/listinfo/libnw Archives: http://immosys.com/mailman//pipermail/libnw
