[lbo-talk] generalizations and history (was Bradich and Lesbian HIStory)

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 2 12:50:22 PDT 2005



> >snitsnat wrote:
> >
> >>I don't think there's one active reader of LBO who's unaware of the
> >>difference between a paleocon, a Rockefeller republican, a christian
> >>rightwinger, a libertarain rightwinger, etc.


> >Yeah, but we're connoisseurs of this sort of thing. When you read The
> >Nation, say, on the right, it's foreign territory to them. It's like they
> >need a Let's Go guide to figure out the main attractions. Or when Moyers
> >interviewed Lew Rockwell - it looked like he'd never known there were
> >anti-imperialist libertarians before.
> >
> >Doug


> is moyers a lefty? i didn't think so, but..... i can't say that i pay a
> whole lot of attention to him.
>
> i am interested, though, in what people think about my thought that
> rightwing ideology depends, at root, on mischaracterizing "the left" (which
> of course is everyone from lieberman to che to stalin to hitler).
>
> kelley

I think more than half the country would consider Moyers a lefty wouldn't they?

I agree the right needs to mischaracterize the left but don't they equally have to mischaracterize their own position to make it attractive? I think misrepresentation is the name of the game on the right.

John Thornton



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