Posted on 10/11/2024 3:35:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In 1978, I visited my first war zone, Beirut. There were, in fact, several wars going on. The Israelis had made an incursion in the south, but there was chaos everywhere, with various local militias squaring off in the streets. Two of them had battled each other for control of the Holiday Inn. Imagine that. Beirut, clearly, had been a civilized and sophisticated city; parts of it still were — and yet it was descending into the unthinkable. The lesson was stark: My American soul, my life experience, had assumed that civilization was a rock-solid given, especially in historic cultural and commercial centers like Beirut. But it wasn’t. It was a tenuous state of grace. It needed to be nurtured, protected. That is why I’m voting for Kamala Harris for president. Civic order is the predicate for a diverse democracy like ours. It is the predicate for freedom. And we have been flirting, dangerously, with disorder and disunity in the Trump era.
My case for Ms. Harris is a conservative one, but it has little to do with the current nihilist havoc of the Republican Party — or its precursor, the libertarian, neoliberal reaction against government led by Ronald Reagan. It rests primarily on Ms. Harris’s respect for the traditions and institutions of our remarkable country. It also rests on two necessary adjustments she’s made to Democratic Party dogma: a move away from identity politics and a move away from the notional, indulgent pessimism of the academic left. That’s it. Three words: stability, unity, optimism.
In his first Inaugural Address, in January 1981, Ronald Reagan said, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.” He was wrong. Government could be arrogant and clumsy; it could make foolish attempts at social engineering and...
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Never heard of him...
As if covering world politics for 50 years in the New York Lies somehow makes you an expert on world politics. It makes you a recipient of 50-year salary as a presenter of Democrat policies. Fruck you, Joe, and fruck your opinions!
[Joe Klein]
Primary Colors
Main article: Primary Colors (novel)
In January 1996, Klein anonymously published the novel Primary Colors: A Novel of Politics, based on the 1992 Democratic presidential primary. The book spent nine weeks as number one on the New York Times bestseller list, with its author listed as “Anonymous.” Several people, including former Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet and, later, Vassar professor Donald Foster correctly identified Klein as the novel’s author, based on a literary analysis of the book and Klein’s previous writing. Klein denied writing the book and publicly condemned Foster.[5][6] Klein denied authorship again in Newsweek, speculating that another writer wrote it. Washington Post Style editor David Von Drehle, in an interview, asked Klein if he was willing to stake his journalistic credibility on his denial, to which Klein agreed.[7] On July 17, 1996, Klein admitted that the speculation had been correct.[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Klein
Mr. Klein is attempting to rewrite recent history, as so many of his gaslighting ilk are. The "Trump era," what there was of it, was peaceful except for the disorder and disunity caused by the Democrat Party in the streets, the courts, and the Congress in a frantic effort to get rid of him.
Every
Election
The ‘Rats make this clam in every election. Going back to 1964.
Joe, I’ve sent some nice young men from Venezuela over to your place.
They’ll only be there for 6 months until the new condos are ready..is that cool?
If Klein wants to visit another war zone, he can just step out of his office at the Times and walk around midtown.
I’ve always thought that those ‘sunscreens’ they have on the outside of the NYT building look like those RPG screens they put on up-armored vehicles in Iraq, etc. Maybe they are there for more than just climate control....
Joe Klein hasn’t been right about anything for decades.
He didn’t notice that terrorist muslims, who leftists defend, are the ones who destroyed Lebanon.
And “Reagan was wrong” is not a conservative argument.
Which “government” is he defending as the protector of a civil society? Does he realize Lebanon, N Korea, Iran, all have governments?
Joe Kleinn, a man’s man! Why, he’s man enough to vote for Kamla. We Troglodytes can only envy him!
Klein, you moron, the disorder and disunity, the class hatred, the identity politics, the racial everything--this is coming from the left, NOT from President Trump. The "civic order" that you want would be called tyranny by most of us.
"...Ms. Harris’s respect for the traditions and institutions of our remarkable country...two necessary adjustments she’s made to Democratic Party dogma:Here's new one contradiction of that lie (of many). Just this week, FEMA was exposed for spewing the noxious, hateful, anti-American dogma that their resources should be prioritized by where you are on the LGBTQ intersectonality scales, not by whether you are an American citizen.That’s it. Three words: stability, unity, optimism."
- a move away from identity politics
- a move away from the notional, indulgent pessimism of the academic left.
He should have concluded with "That’s it. Two words: idiocracy and kakistocracy."
“Ms. Harris’s respect for the traditions and institutions of our remarkable country.”
So, is she servicing this guy too?
That’s a Tim Walz sized lie, right there!
Klein is insane.
Another 180 degree break from reality by some NYT lunatic.
The article should be entitled, “I’m a Commie Pinko Fag and My Vote is for Ms. Harris!”
50 years, huh? You’d think you would have learned the truth by now, then.
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