tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post6493497483817235264..comments2024-02-23T13:15:42.158+13:00Comments on Dissecting Leftism: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-4099255515030472612008-09-22T17:14:00.000+12:002008-09-22T17:14:00.000+12:00I *told* you, JR, to stop becoming increasingly cy...I *told* you, JR, to stop becoming increasingly cynical and shrill about the USA's drift towards Leftism, on and off for the last couple of years. I live here. Upper West Side of NYC even, and I dine in cafes daily, as well as have family all over the country. A reminder is in order that even our little Island of Man orders up a Giuliani every few years. Our limit is actually when the subways and buildings start getting covered in graffiti. Lately the only graffiti is sandpaper scrawlings on subway windows, a sad fad that started going away two years ago. Your spy on the ground detects zero Bush backlash in the overall USA . That includes Manhattan because Bloomberg the Invisible (and Spitzer and the black cloud vibe of the Clintons who keep offices Harlem) are starting to allow psychotic "homeless people" harass people again. When a Speed Freak tries to start fights with taxi cabs coming towards him, and then takes military bearing on any concerned pedestrians and the police on every block do nothing about it as the 10:35PM "Jesus Freak" wakes up all the kids in the neighborhood every night, well...that's kind of like what got Guilani elected, which namely was the expectation that guys with buckets of dirty water ("Squeegee Men") at EVERY street corner would threaten to break off your rental car windshield wipers if you didn't give them a dollar for splashing mud on your car. That's the vibe I'm getting here, again, now, and that's Manhattan. In the rest of the country, it's an odd mix of very old voters (Boomers) who can't afford cancer medicines along with a very strong desire to nuke Iran.<BR/><BR/>Did you notice how American bloggers essentially shut down fascism in Canada, recently, by which I mean we shoved our First Amendment into their culture.<BR/><BR/>There is a *threshold* effect in the USA. Getting our attention tends to require great injustice, or a general breakdown of simple law and order. Afghanistan got our attention didn't it? So did Canada, thus making an exception to the old joke of what American's think about Canada (= "We don't.")<BR/><BR/>Do you know why the Libertarian Party doesn't get traction here? It's because party vs. party equates to deadlock, which *is* Libertarian, without any given leader having much power. Note how rarely we allow a Reagan, and now a Paulin to have chances at leadership. They might actually be effective, a risk we will rarely take unless things really need shaking up.<BR/><BR/>-=NYC=-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-38151721726433693952008-09-22T11:13:00.000+12:002008-09-22T11:13:00.000+12:00Götz Aly, ex-Maoist historian, created a storm in ...Götz Aly, ex-Maoist historian, created a storm in the media teacup in Germany recently when he pointed out some similarities of the 60s and the 30s youth movements. Another left-wing historian has discovered strong antisemitism in the Rote Fahne and other communist papers of the late 1920s. Very many commmunists resurfaced as stormtroopers in 1933. From 1919 on there was a large and complicated set of socialist and nationalist revolutionaries outside the NSDAP (some also inside). <BR/>Some important 68ers were right-wing before 68 and are now neonazi. <BR/>But there were and there are also important differences, between the two extremes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com