On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:00 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
> Hear, hear!
>
>
> On 4/20/10 12:53 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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>> On Apr 20, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Chip Berlet wrote:
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>> I find much of the conversation on this topic here at LBO elitist, glib,
>>> and frankly disgustingly over-privileged and uncaring about the real
>>> suffereing of others in the real world. Forgive me if I choose to not
>>> participate any longer. Enjoy your armchair pontificating.
>>>
>>
>> Oh please. What a bunch of grandiose high-horsery.
>>
>> There's a reason that the likes of the Ford Foundation, that bastion of
>> the common folk, likes to fund research on the far right. It focuses
>> attention on a threat that is as old as the hills, thereby deflecting
>> critical attention from the kinds of Democrats supported by the Ford
>> Foundation. It would be a lot more fruitful to develop a progressive
>> movement that's independent of the Democratic Party and foundation
>> program officers. Getting all hot and bothered about the far right just
>> encourages a deadend of lesser evilism.
>>
>> Doug
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