>And if leftists keep
>agonizing over that core onthe right, then leftists will be wasting
>their time. It is not going to get worse than tht core except under
>extrordfinary conditons, and nothing leftists, organized or unorganized,
>can do will decrease that core or change it. It is simply part of the
>social landscape you have to live with without going apeshit about it.
I don't think anybody has been agonizing or going apeshit.
Some people have been saying pretty much what you're saying here, i..e. that there is a reactionary core on the right with some contemptible ideals.
The only agonizing I've seen is about how bad it is to say that in plain words.