[lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye

[Alan Rudy]

Yeah, kinda, that's all part of it.  But again, either they don't have the
courage of
their own convictions - a willingness to call their BS-slinging opponents on
the
carpet - or, they are un/consciously committed to effectively the same
positions
as their opponents with only minor variants - if sometimes quite meaningful
ones,
in a day-to-day kind of way (but not a historic or ecological one) and are
therefore
constitutionally unlikely to fight back.
I think its some of both, though I think most Dems are neither aware of
their root
commitments nor capable of any kinds of sophisticated analysis of the
contradictions
and un/intended structural consequences of their policies and fears.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:


>
> Have you taken into account "fear of the media"?. The right wing media
> are attack dogs. It only takes a mild statement from anyone in the
> political establishment supporting left-of-center politcal positions
> to unwind a campaign of hate against that legislator or whatever.
>
> I´m not in the US of A but I´ve seen it down here. Only when the media
> started being democratized -as part of the new Media Law that opened
> the broadcast spectrum to more players, public universities and NGOs-,
> with new news channels with a center-left leaning, that progressive
> legislators started saying what they really think.
>
> Just my $0.02
> FC
> Buenos Aires, Argentina
>
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