In These Times

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• • 10 Nov 06
  • 10:06 pm

  The article brings up a critical point: That of the cognitive political dissonance over ideological alignment in the USA today. It is a dissonance that covers the terms "conservative" and "liberal" as well as "progressive". Thus radical rightists such as Bush/Cheney are called "conservatives", liberals such as Pelosi are called "progressives", and so forth. In general it masks the profound shift to the right that has occured since Reagan. The '06 election results only open a door of possible reversal, they do not actually reverse it. It is in this befogged atmosphere that the Democrats are trying to carry out a …

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• • 10 Nov 06
  • 10:14 pm

  Now on to the substance of the article: The Bleifuss/Burt/Bowers comments promise a renewed assault upon independent-minded leftists. Given the bullying tone and abusive terminology, it looks to be nasty. It will have to be, for hard core Democrat leftists will have their work cut out over the next 2 years covering the left flank of the Democratic Party as it betrays the hopes placed in it by grassroots progressive left activists. Signally, these will be the failure to impeach Bush/Cheney - necessary for expeditious Iraq withdrawal - failure to repeal the Military Commissions Act and failure to repeal the Patriot …

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• • 22 Nov 06
  • 8:09 pm

  Unfortunately, Jon B gives us no clue as to how the middle is to be enticed towards progressiveness. OTOH, half the polled population favors impeachment, so there is definitely a constituency there, especially if the leadup to impeachment involves a process of getting out the truth that you and I may know, but most of the population does not. Proceding towards impeachment - not ruling it "off the table" in advance - is currently the way open to us to do so. This is all the more true now that it is clear that the entire political establishment - Republicans, Democrats, …

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• • 22 Nov 06
  • 8:10 pm

  BTW, I hardly think all, or even most, progressives are socialists.

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