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I've actually looked at and see it was written in 1964. It accurately describes how history repeats, and follows the same track even 50 years on, from 1855 to 1951.
What that author had never heard of in 1964 were the neocons, and, sure enough, 50 years on, another particularly vile and freedom usurping, right wing paranoid group of criminals would emerge, and with the advent of modern technology, embark on a crusade of killing and violence against the innocent and pioneering the use of unmanned drones to kill people half a world away.
Joe McCarthy - 1951
Neoconservatives - 2000
McCarthy dont seem so bad
Guess the leftists are tired of trying to defend failed Democratic policies again.
Thanks for the link. I bookmarked it as I want to really give it my attention and I'm too tired to read it through right now. I did give it a quick once over and right off the bat, it rings so true. This jumped off the page:
If, after our historically discontinuous examples of the paranoid style, we now take the long jump to the contemporary right wing, we find some rather important differences from the nineteenth-century movements. The spokesmen of those earlier movements felt that they stood for causes and personal types that were still in possession of their country—that they were fending off threats to a still established way of life. But the modern right wing, as Daniel Bell has put it, feels dispossessed: America has been largely taken away from them and their kind, though they are determined to try to repossess it and to prevent the final destructive act of subversion. The old American virtues have already been eaten away by cosmopolitans and intellectuals; the old competitive capitalism has been gradually undermined by socialistic and communistic schemers; the old national security and independence have been destroyed by treasonous plots, having as their most powerful agents not merely outsiders and foreigners as of old but major statesmen who are at the very centers of American power. Their predecessors had discovered conspiracies; the modern radical right finds conspiracy to be betrayal from on high.
Even conservative economists say that the stimulus should have been bigger, not smaller.
The Earth WILL be uninhabitable due to global warming, but cap and trade is not the answer.
The evil insurance industry drops people every day when they get cancer.
Next.
Do you mean to say that our cancer only insurance will drop us if we get it? I really didn't know that but have never seen it happen either.
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