September 19, 2006
SO WHERE DO THEY GO FROM THERE?:
Time to Move Beyond Bush-Hating (9/19/06, The Nation)
Posted by Matt Murphy at September 19, 2006 8:03 PMThey haven't moved on because the next question is "Move on to what?" and that means actually presenting a foreign and domestic policy agenda you're in favor of and think you can get the majority of American voters to agree with. For a magazine that helped stoke some of the irrational hatred with David Corn's concocted Plame scandal, The Nation would seem to need to get its own house in order before telling those who follow its writing to try a more proactive course.
Posted by: John at September 19, 2006 8:15 PMTo hating the Republicans in general, Duh!
Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at September 19, 2006 8:38 PM"Eat the rich."
Posted by: Mike Beversluis at September 19, 2006 10:04 PMWhat did the bolsheviks get up to after they got past their czar-hatred. So many ideological enemies and so few cattle cars to siberia.
Posted by: lebeaux at September 19, 2006 11:21 PMExcept the Great Socialist Party found itself in power well before Scientific Socialiam said it would achieve it. That's why they did such an abysmal job of implementing True Socialism.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at September 19, 2006 11:55 PMMike B:
They probably won't attack the rich too much - after all, their chief public face is that haughty heiress, Katrina Vanden Heuval.
It's going to be tough for the hard left in the near future - unlike their fervor for Communism, embracing Islamofacism will become problematic for some on the Upper West Side. Can you see any of them protesting in defense of the blind sheikh (other than Lynne Stewart, who is probably going to be in jail for the rest of her life)?
Posted by: ratbert at September 20, 2006 12:26 AMCan you see any of them protesting in defense of the blind sheikh?
Actually, I can. They've always thought that the consequences of their causes will (and should) be borne by Little People, and they will be rewarded by keeping their privileges (or even given positions of responsibility and power) should any of those causes succeed. Are they in for a surprise.
All the mega-rich are lefties. Go figure?
Posted by: erp at September 20, 2006 5:52 PM