[lbo-talk] Who are the Teabaggers? Call for assistance.

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Apr 11 08:46:15 PDT 2010


shrill.polemic at gmail.com wrote:
>
> On Apr 11, 2010 8:27am, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> > What word would you use to describe a group of people who think that
> > Barack Obama is a socialist? "Idiot" is perhaps excessively condensed and
> > crude, but "systematically and perhaps hopelessly deluded" might work.
>
> > Doug
>
> How about "willfully ignorant"?

I think that would be an excellent label for all those, whether left or right, who suffer from the delusion that freedom consists in the absence of visible external constraing.

Carrol



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