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Asymptotic Life Most of us have no idea what options are on the table, yet our minds are made up: we’re going to support “our proposals” against “their proposals.” We don’t know what the proposals are, but we’re certain that theirs are wrong. And this is true on both sides: we’ve already decided, and [...] This is quite extraordinary, in-your-face town hall meetings about health care in the privileged, wealthy enclaves of West Hartford and Greenwich in Connecticut Look folks, I grew up in West Hartford, and we lived near there for a year recently. It is not a rowdy place. In fact, it is anti-rowdy – staid, [...] You read that right. While Kos is highly suspicious of Palin’s motives, maybe everyone on all sides of the political spectrum finally took a deep breath and thought, do we really want pitched semi-violent confrontations as a regular thing – because that’s where we’re headed. Let’s hope so. [...] Some posts you may have missed here. My views on the town hall meetings. Attempts at disrupting meetings can easily be stopped by the organizers. The fascist hordes are not massing at the gates. The 60′s were a whole lot crazier than now. The right will push the middle class to the left. We need [...] Dave Neiwert, researcher and author of books about the far right, in Crooks and Liars Are we looking at an outbreak of fascist behavior on a large scale? My own take: Real fascism is always violent. We’re getting some light violence around the edges here, but fascism always openly embraces the ethos of violence, [...] As mentioned previously, in the 60′s Jerry Rubin said “kill your parents.” Things got quite radical then. But within a few years, the right wing was ascendant and the left mostly in tatters. That’s because the middle class got turned off by leftie howlings and went rightward. The right saw this as a huge [...] Seems to me they are. And guess what, the country survived the 60′s even though conservatives were saying it was TEOTWAWKI. There were times in the 60′s when it seemed revolution was just round the corner. Conservatives were thinking that then, as well as radicals. Omigod, those town hall crazies have been talking about killing [...] The Blue Voice gets it right in Why Democrats get steamrolled. It’s because they don’t fight back. As witness their current shrieking about all those horrid right wingers at town hall meetings, and not actually doing anything about it. The Blue Voice plan for stopping hecklers 1. Shout them down. 2. Get some advice from [...] |  | ||||
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