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From: Max Sawicky
One could translate this, uncharitably, to be saying,
instead of talking like academics, they act like politicians.
I'm afraid demonization and scapegoating is the mother's
milk of ALL popular politics. Just pause and reflect how
much demonization could be found right here on LBO, from
all political corners. Maybe Adlai Stevenson and George
McGovern never stooped to such tactics, but we know what
happened to them. FDR had the 'economic royalists.'
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In 1965, Stevenson, with a favorable reference to the US suppression of the Greek anti-fascists in 1947, supported the US involvement in Vietnam by calling it "defense against internal aggression." The US Air Force was bombing the population into Strategic Hamlets in an effort to protect them from their own nationalist supporters who were fighting against the US, that's internal aggression. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20000103/70cd2f57/attachment.html>