On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:42:15 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
> Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 13:08:29 -0600 Michael Pugliese
> ><michael.098762001 at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
>
>
> Yup, that is a good piece. Bramwell says that
> today, people join the right because their
> parents and grandparents were conservatives -
> there's no intellectual conversion experience, as
> there was in the 70s. I can testify that that's
> true - it was Buckley, Burnham, Kirk, Friedman,
> and Kendall who won me over. Bramwell's
> conclusion that the real intellectual energy on
> the right today is among extreme elitists (e.g.,
> the masses are stupid, so democratic government
> is inevitably stupid, therefore we must have
> limited government) is pretty intriguing - and
> puts the tone of the Party of the Right's
> 50th-anniversary banquet
> <http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=20030217&s=henwood>
You may recall that your old friend, Louis Proyect, founded a chapter of Young Americans for Freedom at his high school. So I guess you're in good company.
>
> Doug
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