[lbo-talk] American Idiocracy redux

[// ravi]

On Apr 30, 2011, at 8:20 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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> Not good enough. Some people are leftists because they like to be right on principle; others, because they have an eternally adolescent contrary spirit; others, because of great compassion; others, because their parents were leftists; etc.
> 

Eternally adolescent contrarian spirit, here! I don’t have any principles.

Though as always I love reading Woj’s meditations, I tend to agree (with Admiral Rudy) that in this instance, the cup of pessimism has runneth over. If Wisconsin can swing from Feingold to Walker (yes, not the same seat, I know) and the only way to get Kucinich out was to gerrymander him out of Congress, then what that says is that the public is malleable. IMHO.

	—ravi