[lbo-talk] the World Can't Wait

[jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net]

> --- Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> wrote:
> 
> > check out:
> > 
> > http://www.worldcantwait.org/signcall.html
> >
> 
> >From the web site:
> 
> "People look at all this and think of Hitler – and
> they are right to do so.  The Bush regime is setting
> out to radically remake society very quickly, in a
> fascist way, and for generations to come.  We must act
> now; the future is in the balance."

On 14 Aug 2005 at 17:15, mike larkin wrote:
> 
> Do we really need the Hitler analogies? What's wrong
> with these people?

When the far right label behaviours and opinions they don't like as "treasonous" and constantly refer to 
people they disagree with of as "traitors" does it help their cause or hurt it? None of the accused individuals 
are guilty of being traitors. None of the behaviours labeled as such in the last few years by right-wing 
pundits are even close to treason.

While I don't personally like the Hitler analogies I cannot say that it is ineffective in arousing people. 
Rational arguments will not always be effective. To quote Swift, "You cannot reason a man out of 
something he was never reasoned into." Not everyone holds the beliefs they subscribe to after long internal 
debates on the strength and/or weakness of it.

John Thornton