<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488858595597_4837">No doubt, Mort, that his gifted literary/polemical head of steam often races ahead of his attention to detail and thoroughness.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488858595597_4890"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1488858595597_4889">DG</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font face="Arial" size="2"> On Monday, March 6, 2017 9:49 PM, "Brussel, Morton K" <brussel@illinois.edu> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8415880965"><div>
I would agree with your adjectives, David, but would propose that at times he goes too far overboard.
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<div class="yiv8415880965">Not <b class="yiv8415880965">all</b> liberals, e.g., are as perverse as he describes, are not racist or scornful of the lower economic classes. Of course, many are, as many of any persuasion are. </div>
<div class="yiv8415880965">Of course this is a polemic, and so we have to expect, or excuse? such dubious arguments. </div>
<div class="yiv8415880965">In addition, the beginning quote by Fidel about populations and birth control seem more than curious; they are stupid. Even Fidel could be stupid on certain issues! </div>
<div class="yiv8415880965">Also curious is his omitting considering the nations of western Europe, our “allies” Britain, France, Germany… Are they in the same nefarious boat as the U.S. ? </div>
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<div class="yiv8415880965">But all in all, this is a passionately useful, even if too often exaggerated, commentary. </div>
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<div class="yiv8415880965">—mkb</div>
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<em><strong>John Steppling</strong> is an original founding member of the Padua Hills Playwrig...</div>
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