[lit-ideas] Re: lit-ideas Digest V1 #129
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:40:25 -0800
on 11/12/04 3:23 AM, Peter Mackenzie at
Peter.Mackenzie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> Quite a few of them seem to have guns, too.
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Two editors of the "Economist" were interviewed yesterday about a book they
have written called something like "Right America" or
"Americans turn right and cut corners" or something of that ilk. Their
point was that it doesn't do to demonize the opposition, by which they meant
Conservative Evangelicals. They observed that the opposition is well
organized and knows what it wants, and therefore, and therefore...that's the
bit, while driving, I didn't take in.
It seems to me, a mere and deportable alien, that if a party comes to power
that looks fascist and acts in ways that remind one of fascism, the proper
thing to do is to give them five or ten minutes to prove that they are
merely bumbling Reaganites. After that, all bets are off. One ponders, and
one looks carefully at all peaceful options.
How's the west of Scotland look?
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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