[lbo-talk] Evil and Stupidity

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Charles Brown" <cbrown at michiganlegal.org>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>
>	But it's not true. A lot of rightwingers - from Hayek to Fox News -
>aren't stupid. And quite a few aren't "evil" either. I don't like the
>politics of the people around Reason magazine, but they're all decent and
>quite talented.
>
>	Doug
>
>^^^^^^
>CB: I can't quite understand this. If they are smart, then why do they
>uphold and push evil positions ? Shouldn't they know better ?

Yes really, Doug, at this point it's a no-brainer.  We all know how the 
great Right Renaissance of the last 30 years turned out -- a disaster.  
Conservative thinking has been in the driver's seat since Reagan, and today: 

  US foreign policy is in ruins; the economy has been deindustrialized; the 
middle class has been immiserated; and the nation has been rendered 
powerless to respond to natural disaster.  Only a fool or a knave could 
continue to maintain that rightwing nostrums hold the answer to any public 
priority.

Carl