Capon Rising was meant to be a funny response (and obvious pun) to the claim by Chick0 that I was Chicken Little. What is relevant from the 1980s is that accurately predicting the rise (punintended) of a large right-wing social and political movement is hardly a case of hysterical warning. Nor is it accurate to think that if the Democract had won, there would be no talk of a right-wing movement. It is not going away. It did not go away after the televangelism scandals of the late 1980s. It did not go away after the over-reaching of the the Contract with America. The demographics revealed by polling make it clear it has a mass base.
None of this means that a counter force on the left should not take advanage of Bush's fading popularity. But delusion about the political right not having strength, or implying the federal judiciary is a meaningless entity, is a case of the sandy-nosed Ostrich calling the Chicken little.
:-)
-Chip
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Doug Henwood Sent: Tue 6/21/2005 10:41 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Straw in the wind: Republican base dividing on Iraq
Chip Berlet wrote:
>-Chip "Capon Rising" Berlet
You're self-identifying as a castrated chicken? This may not be the best advertisement for your position!
This is not the early 1980s, when right-wing power was young, the ideology sounded fresh, their forces were united, and Reagan commanded considerable public affection. Now the right is very familiar, tired, divided, and Bush is far from liked. So I don't get what you think is relevant from the early 1980s. Could you elaborate?
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