[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [sf-core] Rise in Right-Wing Extremism

[Morton K. Brussel]

Erratum… wrt my response below:  and for liberte, égalité et fraternité…  mkb

On Mar 9, 2010, at 11:15 PM, Morton K. Brussel wrote:

> This is all beside the point rationalization. The Republicans who have been largely funding and pushing the Tea Party efforts are hardly underclass! And the underclass is not always right in their political or racial or societal positions, as you yourself recognize! However, you still fall into an ideological trap when you try to frame everything as class inspired, and where only one class counts or has the virtues.   In fact there are many classes in today's America, and they have mixed priorities.
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> If the Tea Partyers would stand for economic egalitarianism, justice, and social benefits for all (but then there would have to be tax increases (which they largely seem to oppose—we do need the facts, even if progressive) and against U.S. imperialism, corporatism, plutocracy, racism and liberté, égalité  et fraternité, they might be a vital effort. I don't see much evidence of that. It could turn out like the aftermath of the Weimar republic. Again, I'd like to know where most of them stand on a variety of issues as against a general expression of hatred and malaise. I'm unaware of a factual analysis yet. 
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> If they would scare the major parties for the right reasons, that indeed would be a good thing, but, again, that is not apparent so far as I can see from who appears on their grandstands.
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> --mkb
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