"If This Be Treason . . ."

fastpat · 04-30-2006, 06:18 PM

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Tuesday, April 25, 2006

"If This Be Treason . . ."

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Alas! it is delusion all;
The future cheats us from afar,
Nor can we be what we recall,
Nor dare we think on what we are.
-Lord Byron

The polls show that 33 percent of the public still gives Dubya Bush a favourable approval rating. Who could these people be? Some of them, no doubt, are well-meaning dupes in the early stages of Alzheimers. But there is a hard core of latent fascism out there. Though they deviously misuse the idea to slander opposition, leftists are not entirely wrong to point out the dangers of authoritarian super-patriotism. Every country has them: people who believe that My country right or wrong is equivalent to The Leader right or wrong; who regard questioning the government as treason worthy of the direst punishment. Sometimes the type reaches a critical mass in society, as in Germany in the 1930's.
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/wilson.cgi/If_This_Be_Treason.html?seemore=y

fintstone · fintstone's Garage

Or perhaps only 33% have a clue. Your reasoning, or lack thereof, reminds me more of "Lord of the Flies" than Lord Byron. Apparently ignorance loves company.

RoninLB · 04-30-2006, 09:49 PM

The leader always gets voter blame from gas prices onward. I think Reagan had lower #'s around Iran Contra?

oh.. I forgot, someone around here hates Reagan also.

speeder · speeder's Garage

Reagan looked like a great intellectual next to W. And Reagan was an imbecile.

Joeaksa · 04-30-2006, 11:35 PM

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Originally posted by speeder
And Reagan was an imbecile.

Kinda like the person who started this thread!

RoninLB · 05-01-2006, 12:57 AM

Reagan's dead now.

Maybe some of you guys can call Putin and ask him to take back Poland & E Germany?