TahitiNut
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Fri Sep-05-03 02:16 PM
Response to Reply #160 |
161. But it's never their fault. |
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Edited on Fri Sep-05-03 02:16 PM by TahitiNut
Stealing a page from the Rove playbook, it's always the fault of those with whom they disagree. When they marginalize those 'acivists' who then sometimes support a candidate that actually represents their perspective, they cry "foul!" and spout (project) the "If you're not with us, you're against us" theme song of the PNAC types. The politics of fear; the politics of scarcity; the politics of division and finger-pointing; the politics of entitlement -- none of this serves a pluralistic electorate. Fascism infects both major parties -- the specious notion that ordinary people must subordinate their freedoms for the benefit of the powerful. Sacrificing common (liberal) interests for the sake of narrow (oligarchical) interests is bad politics.
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