[lbo-talk] Is this LBO-Talk's Peter Lavelle

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 09:43:18 PDT 2011


Ferenc: "I don't have a problem with Tea Party representatives being invited on to talk shows but it's a mistake to give them the opening statement and let them frame the debate. The clip was unwatchable in my opinion."

[WS:] I disagree. As I said before, these guys do not debate issues, they use every opportunity to launch a psychological warfare by verbally assaulting and smearing their targets. It is no different from Goebbels' propaganda machine. The only way to deal with them is to silence them, but since this is not feasible in a democratic society, the next best thing is to limit the damage they can cause. I do not see how inviting them to talk shows can accomplish this. In fact, it has the opposite effect of giving another opportunity to launch their warfare.

This, btw, helps explaining why historically not a single democracy fell to a communist revolution, but many fell to fascist takeovers. Democracy has plenty of defenses against communism, but no defenses against fascism, at least as long as it remains a democracy.

Wojtek



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