[lbo-talk] Gore Vidal: Hero of the Right?

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 10 10:02:39 PDT 2003


Barry Goldwater once said the far right had a lot in commomnw ith the New Left . . . jks


> As they say: you can go so far right you come left,
> and if the ideas
> cited below were the man in a nutshell, and if (a
> massive if) The Right
> idolized them genuinely, we might be in for some
> positive surprises!
>
> Wishful thinking...
>
> Matt
>
> mike larkin wrote:
>
> >
>
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/Chronicles/June2003/0603Kauffman.html
> >
> > "So what are the policy prescriptions of this
> > dangerous radical? Eliminate the income tax and
> > devolve the taxing power to states and
> municipalities.
> > Call off the ruinous drug war. Decentralize
> political
> > power along the lines of the Swiss cantonal
> system.
> > Bring home our troops. Slash the “atrocious taxes
> that
> > subsidize this permanent war machine.” Decimate
> the
> > budget of the War Department (coyly renamed the
> > “Department of Defense” by the amusingly surnamed
> > President True-Man). Fine ideas all, and within
> the
> > Jeffersonian tradition. Gore Vidal ought to be a
> > revered elder of the libertarian side of the
> American
> > right. "
> >
> >
> >
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