On Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 09:06:52 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes: > >On May 14, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Bill Lear wrote: > >> You have to admit that "the right" probably engages in more blatant >> anti-democratic efforts than the not-so-far-right, albeit with a bit >> of guilty lip-biting on the part of liberals who quietly go along with >> such schemes. > >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?
I'm sure you know the answer to this: with a combination of vast sums of money, populist appeals to fear and patriotism, suppression of dissent and franchise, violence, intimidation, fraud, clever marketing, and most importantly perhaps, active help from the other side of the aisle whose dullness, aloofness, stupidity, criminality, cravenness, and thinly veiled totalitarian desire is perhaps even more loathsome than that of the right. Bill _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
