[lbo-talk] Bohemian Grove

[Jon Johanning]

The mark of a True Radical (that is, a believer in the True Radical 
Faith) is that, at a time when the actual people of the country are 
clearly moving to the left (even if not nearly far enough to satisfy 
TR), and the right-wing government in power is fighting for its life, 
TR asserts ever more fervently that the left is completely washed up, 
about to be packed into the cattle cars for the proverbial trip down 
those one way railroad tracks. Only TR -- the sole authentic hero of 
our times  -- has the all but superhuman power of political discernment 
to perceive the specter of the Fascist Hordes hiding behind the scenes, 
ready any day now to set those cattle cars rolling.

The fact that no one but TR sees this incredibly menacing threat does 
not prove him or her wrong -- it proves the remarkable superiority of 
TR's political insight over everyone else's.

For in the world that TR, and only TR, sees with absolute clarity, it 
is always the last hour -- the world is always about to sink forever 
into the sheer darkness of pure fascism, unless ... yes, it's the only 
hope: everyone must rally behind TR, accept his or her words with pure 
faith, and march forward into the dawn.

On Jul 22, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Joseph Wanzala wrote:


> Chip,
>
> Clearly we have a regime in power in the US that is bordering on 
> fascist; or that is striving assiduously toward that goal. So while 
> your analysis of the danger of fascist groups may or may be correct (I 
> think it is not, but we can debate that seperately) the political 
> reality is in fact that a group of right-wingers with connections to 
> the highest levels of traditional corporatist power have, over the 
> last two decades, increasingly consolidated their hold on power in the 
> US while sucessfully forcing the liberal-left united front to either 
> capitulate (in the case of the liberals) or to be reduced to 
> ineffectual protest movements (in the case of the left).

[snip]


> You seem to be worrying more about things that may or may happen, and 
> avoiding looking at what is actually happening in political reality, 
> most of which does not conform with your analysis.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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