The Left is becoming suicidal. Well, the "Cultural Marxist" Left, anyway. This is not the old "proletarian Left" by any stretch of the imagination. Billy ------------------------------------------------------------------------ message dated 9/28/2011 [email protected] writes:
Oh, goody. David "Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine."--P. J. O’Rourke -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Best of the Web Today - September 28, 2011 Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:44:07 -0400 From: WSJ.com Editors _<[email protected]>_ (mailto:[email protected]) Reply-To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) To: [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) _Online Journal E-Mail Center_ (http://online.wsj.com/email) September 28, 2011 -- 4:39 p.m. EDT _"http://s2.wsj.net/img/ICN_pro.gif"_ (http://s2.wsj.net/img/ICN_pro.gif) ); background-repeat:no-repeat !important; background-position:left center; padding-left:30px !important; } See all of today's editorials and op-eds, video interviews and commentary on _Opinion Journal_ (http://online.wsj.com/opinion) . _VIEW TODAY'S FULL COLUMN_ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576599021962517978.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h) _FORMAT THIS COLUMN FOR PRINTING_ (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204226204576599021962517978.html#printMode) Democrats Against Democracy What does Mitt Romney think of this disturbing new trend? By JAMES TARANTO advertisement (http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/email.wsj.com/email_bestofthewebtoday;!category=;msrc=;s0=;s1=;s2=;s3=;s4=;s5=;sz=300x250;ord=14321143211432114321) The left has had it with democracy, the _New York Times_ (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/world/as-scorn-for-vote-grows-protests-surge-around-globe.ht ml) reports: >From South Asia to the heartland of Europe and now even to Wall Street, these protesters share something else: wariness, even contempt, toward traditional politicians and the democratic political process they preside over. They are taking to the streets, in part, because they have little faith in the ballot box. "Our parents are grateful because they're voting," said Marta Solanas, 27, referring to older Spaniards' decades spent under the Franco dictatorship. "We're the first generation to say that voting is worthless." The same theme is increasingly heard here in America--not from street protesters but from traditional politicians, especially Democrats, and their supporters in the liberal elite media. Associated Press Gov. Perdue: Voters are the problem. "I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that," North Carolina's Gov. Beverly Perdue said yesterday. "You want people who don't worry about the next election." 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