[lbo-talk] left aiding right

John Gulick john_gulick at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 14 08:44:37 PDT 2009


Doug Henwood:


>How the angry liberals reinforce the role of the right as agenda-setters:


>http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/agenda-setting/

JG:

Yes, this needs to be intoned again and again, a hundred million times.

You got young Blumenthal to fess up to this truth, however hesitantly.

(Which is not to say that the Christian right is not horrorfest terrain

worthy of study). But the dynamic you just described, going wild WILD WILD!!! over the comments sections of scores of blogs, is what I feared most about an Obama victory. I'm sure Adorno had something useful to say about the cartoon world of false dichotomies (or as you aptly put it, "dueling caricatures").

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