[lbo-talk] left is to blame for tea party

[brad]

CGE wrote:
I don't think Chomsky says that the Left is to blame for the tea party.  What he
says - causing consternation - is that the tea party arises from legitimate
grievances. He objects to a response to the teapartiers that is simply ridicule.
The Limbaughs and the Palins offer plausible but false answers for real economic
distress - "crazy, but extremely dangerous" answers. It's the job of the Left to
counter those answers, not just dismiss them.

Of course the administration and its supporters are working hard to convince us
that all their critics are just crazy racists - an interesting example of Walter
Benn Michaels' notion of the substitution of race for class. --CGE
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Clearly you and Chomsky must be calling for us to reach out to the TP
group.  Clearly they are just a bunch of 'haters and ratfuckers'.  How
dare you tell us not to ridicule the TPers and call them names, we are
just 'bonding' and 'blowing off steam'.  What 'stupid' ideas.

Brad, doing his impression of shag, Alan and Carrol.