[lbo-talk] Liberalism and preemptive evil

[Carl Remick]

>From: Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
>
>Jim Farmalant wrote:
>
>>That was one of the great discoveries of the 1960s New Left.
>>For all their faults, one positive achievement of the New Left
>>was their realization that it was
>>the liberals who were the main enemy, and that liberals
>>were more dangerous than the rightwingers because
>>of their capacity for cloaking military aggression abroad
>>and repression at home under a veneer of progressive
>>sounding rhetoric.
>======================
>Wishful thinking, and deluded to boot. What exactly has happened to the New
>Left, and its "one great discovery and positive achievement"? The great
>majority of those who were part of the 60s student revolt now identify
>themselves as liberals and view the rightwing Bush administration rather
>than the Democratic party as the "main enemy" in both foreign and domestic
>affairs.

You and Doug are many news cycles behind current reality, Marvin.  It's not 
just that the Bush Administration has run out of gas and is stranded, 
discredited, a global laughingstock.  A larger cycle, the Reagan Revolution, 
has run its course.  The Republican model of military adventurism and overt 
imperialism that fired Americans' imaginations for the past quarter century 
has been broken beyond repair in Afghanistan and Iraq.  With the GOP now in 
disgrace, there is little near-term likelihood the public will continue buy 
its particular brand of military solutions to diplomatic problems.  For the 
military-industrial complex, that poses a problem of finding a new host so 
it can continue on its global mission of senseless slaughter.

Enter, the New & Improved Democrat Liberal!  Like its Cold War predecessor, 
this new release will favor the same militarism that the Republicans do ... 
but with a lot more soul.  The Dems are the danger now, not the Republicans.

Carl