Posted on 09/09/2003 12:49:01 PM PDT by knighthawk
Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.
Jeremiah 9:5
Pretty much says it all.
Ever wonder why the U.S. doesn't have a viable socialist/commie party? It is because the 60's college radicals were directed by mentors like Saul Alinsky and Dorothy Healy to infiltrate and ingratiate themselves into the mainstream corporate and media complex. And into the Dem party, of couse. Well, they have succeeded, and succeeded very well. But not well enough to convince a skeptical America to endorse most of their agenda. Just well enough to pull the Dem party well to the left.
Now they want their 'revolution', ie., payback for their failure to establish a free-lunch utopia back when they were young. They are getting old, they know this is their last chance. And Howard Dean is their man.
All the old hippies and all the freshly-minted leftists out of college support Dean...in short all the old losers and all the liberal university ignoramuses.
When you are losing in poker, one strategy is to go all-in on a longshot hand. Thus, IF things fall apart in Iraq, and IF the economy tanks, and IF Dean doesn't self-immolate in the course of a 15-month campaign, they just might pull off a stunning political coup. They have written a political script in their heads, hoping history will validate their political wet-dream.
I think you nailed it right there. I was having a similar discussion w/ my wife the other night about johnny dipp, et al.
This point was brought home to me in a novel I recently read while on vacation; "Fierce Invalids from Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins wherein the author posits that an "elite" exits that sets the tone in fashion, politics etc. According to this view they are the ONLY humans and the rest of humanity is at there disposal, you know to shovel snow and dig coal and stuff like that. Those people are not really alive and so don't really count.
I think there are alot of people that consider themselves in this "elite". They are the enemy. They are contemptable. You'll recognize them by their smirk; George Clooney call your office.
Unforgiveable oversight to be sure. Yes indeed! And the list goes on.
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