[Winona Online Democracy]
Hello Chuck and Winona Online Democracy,
Chuck, thank you for your clarifications and your diplomacy.
Unfortunately, we have never met. But I can tell that you are a person of
dignity, patience, and one heck of a writer/thinker to boot. (Now, if only
a personal political evolution could take place.....)
;->
I wasn't throwing my own rhetorical land mines at you. Since we don't know
each other, I couldn't tell from your words if you were red baiting,
smearing, or in any way trying to attach negative connations with certain
politcal labels. I know see it's more of a general observation.
One thing I have noticed is how limited political discourse is in our
mainstream media and culture. It's almost as if our media bandwidth is
about 2 millimeters wide while the rest of the world enjoys a much richer
and wider set of perspectives when politics, history, and social issues are
talked about.
I'm probably biased but I think we have the fundamentalist and
ultraconservative views represeneted quite well in the media but we lack
the other more progressive and social justice orientated views that Europe
and other countries hear in their political parties and media. In my mind,
the American media calls the 20 yard line the center of the political
football field.
It doesn't surprise me at all that the topics and political persepectives
of this listserve don't reflect mainstream media views. I don't think the
mainstream media reflects society at all.
One more thing, if we are stuck with the old flat and two dimensional
political sprectrum, we are stuck with the mindset of people always
wobbling back and forth over a mythical center that does not exist. That's
why one of the central themes in the Greens movement is, "not right, not
left, but forward."
What might a better kind of political spectrum look like? A tornado,
whirlpool, upward/downward spiral, meandering river channel, etc.?
Dwayne the long winded,
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>Dwayne
>
>Not "squakers", it's "squawkers" - bears repeating. Thank you for avoiding
>the land mines. I was simply letting the List know that there are other
>perspectives out here as well - more in tune with those of Paul Double than
>those most often displayed by the regular contributors to the List.
>
>On the continuum of socio-economic (and political) beliefs we, as US
>citizens, are permitted - even encouraged - to hold and express, facisim and
>socialism are commonly considered to be on opposite sides of the "center".
>Facism being far more polar on one end than socialism is on the other end.
>But, you know that, don't you. Speaking of rhetorical land mines; I just
>drove over one!
>
>Of course, my perspectives are no more facist than those I often see
>expressed here are communist. The respective perspectives may be just a shade
>either way of "center" - not much different than we are seeing from our
>Legislature of late.
>
> If you (in the plural) object to labels (and you might, with cause), I do
>apologize to anyone who may have been offended.
>
>Chuck Dillerud
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