<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">She represents (& even influences) the views of some of or fellow citizens, so it's worthwhile to know what those views are, in order to know how to answer them.<div><br></div><div>"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."</div><div><br></div><div>An example is the charge that Obama is a socialist. To those of us who really are socialists, in a tradition more than two centuries old, that's not worth a reply. But when Americans today make that charge, they're saying Obama heads a government that runs an economy for the benefit of a few. (Where could they get the idea that that's what socialism is?) And of course they're right. So it won't do simply to say (correctly), "No, Obama isn't a socialist."</div><div><br></div><div>Even though (to quote that contemporary cultural artefact, <i>Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby</i>) "with all due respect, and remember I'm
saying it with all due respect, that idea ain't worth a velvet painting
of a whale and a dolphin getting it on..."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Dec 28, 2011, at 9:36 PM, David Johnson wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>With all due respect Carl,<br><br>Who gives a shit what this elitist nazi nutcase Ann Coulter thinks or says ?<br><br>David Johnson<br><br>----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl G. Estabrook" <<a href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>><br>To: "Peace-discuss List" <<a href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>><br>Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 9:15 PM<br>Subject: [Peace-discuss] What the Right thinks<br><br><br>It's interesting to see that Coulter thinks the two most important<br>issues are (1) immigration and (2) Obamacare. But both are supported<br>by the currently regnant ideology of the right, neoliberalism:<br><br>[1] Neolberals support immigration, legal and illegal. "First, there<br>isn’t a single US corporation that doesn’t have an HR office committed<br>to respecting the differences between cultures, to making sure that<br>your culture is respected whether or not your standard of living is.<br>And, second, multiculturalism and diversity more generally are even<br>more effective as a legitimizing tool, because they suggest that the<br>ultimate goal of social justice in a neoliberal economy is not that<br>there should be less difference between the rich and the poor—indeed<br>the rule in neoliberal economies is that the difference between the<br>rich and the poor gets wider rather than shrinks—but that no culture<br>should be treated invidiously and that it’s basically OK if economic<br>differences widen as long as the increasingly successful elites come<br>to look like the increasingly unsuccessful non-elites. So the model of<br>social justice is not that the rich don’t make as much and the poor<br>make more, the model of social justice is that the rich make whatever<br>they make, but an appropriate percentage of them are minorities or<br>women..."<br><br>[2] Neoliberals also support Obamacare because it staves off tax-<br>supported single payer while funneling money to the insurance companies.<br><br>But Coulter opposes both, apparently for fear that they will lead to<br>higher taxes to support further social services (that Obamacare e.g.<br>will slip over into single-payer rather than guard against it).<br><br>"Only One Candidate Is Right On The Two Most Important Issues"<br>by Ann Coulter 12/28/2011<br><br><a href="http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48423">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48423</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Peace-discuss mailing list<br>Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br>http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss <br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>