On May 14, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:
For sure, but let's not fall into the Naomi Klein trap and assume
that the right can only take power through force and maintain it
through torture. Though the sun might be setting on them now, the
right won a series of electoral victories over the last 25 years in
Britain, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, India...and managed to
turn previously leftish parties into milder versions of themselves.
How did they do this?
In India the formula is much the same as in the US: religion. I am not
sure what it will take for the left to gain power, but the right seems
to be able to cross the threshold only through appeal to fear and
other "baser" instincts.
--ravi
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