[Peace-discuss] What the Right thinks

[Carl G. Estabrook]

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.

"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to  
worry about answers."

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."

Even though (to quote that contemporary cultural artefact, Talladega  
Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby) "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..."


On Dec 28, 2011, at 9:36 PM, David Johnson wrote:

> With all due respect Carl,
>
> Who gives a shit what this elitist nazi nutcase Ann Coulter thinks  
> or says ?
>
> David Johnson
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu 
> >
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> Subject: [Peace-discuss] What the Right thinks
>
>
> It's interesting to see that Coulter thinks the two most important
> issues are (1) immigration and (2) Obamacare. But both are supported
> by the currently regnant ideology of the right, neoliberalism:
>
> [1] Neolberals support immigration, legal and illegal. "First, there
> isn’t a single US corporation that doesn’t have an HR office committed
> to respecting the differences between cultures, to making sure that
> your culture is respected whether or not your standard of living is.
> And, second, multiculturalism and diversity more generally are even
> more effective as a legitimizing tool, because they suggest that the
> ultimate goal of social justice in a neoliberal economy is not that
> there should be less difference between the rich and the poor—indeed
> the rule in neoliberal economies is that the difference between the
> rich and the poor gets wider rather than shrinks—but that no culture
> should be treated invidiously and that it’s basically OK if economic
> differences widen as long as the increasingly successful elites come
> to look like the increasingly unsuccessful non-elites. So the model of
> social justice is not that the rich don’t make as much and the poor
> make more, the model of social justice is that the rich make whatever
> they make, but an appropriate percentage of them are minorities or
> women..."
>
> [2] Neoliberals also support Obamacare because it staves off tax-
> supported single payer while funneling money to the insurance  
> companies.
>
> But Coulter opposes both, apparently for fear that they will lead to
> higher taxes to support further social services (that Obamacare e.g.
> will slip over into single-payer rather than guard against it).
>
> "Only One Candidate Is Right On The Two Most Important Issues"
> by Ann Coulter 12/28/2011
>
> http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48423
>
>
>
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