Such shades work in both directions and that was kind of my dads point. When mainline American liberals do finally stand up to be counted it is already too late (and always seems to happen when what is going on is going to cost themselves something). Perhaps they would stand up much sooner if they were not so busy mixing shades of grey that they could not tell right from wrong.
On this the right is absolutely correct. They do the fighting so that cushy liberals can mix grey scales. And then at the very end of it all they stand up and condemn them for the very actions they tacitly condoned. It is like reading Krugman's lament of income inequality after he played such a large role in pushing neoliberalism during the 1990s.
Perhaps we can amend my father's pithy little statement: When at first you scratch liberal he cries, then in shame, not wanting to look like wimp endorses low level fascism, then finding the courage of his conviction does a volte-face and decries the very fascism he signed himself and others onto. Stick that on your color display with a high level of moral resolution.
____________________________________ Travis W Fast
> Travis:
>
>
> OTOH, my American father always said: "scratch an American liberal and 9
> times out of ten you get a fascist." He was angry back then, something
> about "liberals" supporting the Vietnam War. At least "liberals" in the
US
> do not go in for that kind of shit anymore:)/.
>
>
> [WS:] This is why I parted ways with radicals - these guys do not seem to
> have any sense of proportion, balance and shades of gray (with all due
> respect to your dad).
>
> Listening to them is like looking at a 10 mega pixel color photo on a 240
x
> 480 pixel monochrome monitor. The latter worked fine when I got my first
> computer many years ago, but today I would not want to part with my color
> LCD display.
>
> Wojtek
>
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