Article

2004-12-17 Home Front: Politix

The Antiwar Right's Bent View of the World

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by tipper 2004-12-17 10:02|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 is that their ideas about politics are not the product of rational thought and a concern for the common good. Their ideas are, very simply, the product of burning anger, a sense of perpetual hurt and victimhood. And that is why they have become so much like the left. The author is imputing motives to his opponents, which perpetuates the 'people who disagree with me are evil conspiracists' mindset. Politics should be a debate about outcomes and means to outcomes undertaken by well intentioned people. Once you lose that and go off into wacky conspiracies, you are lost to the debate.

Posted by phil_b 2004-12-17 4:38:48 PM|| 2004-12-17 4:38:48 PM|| Front Page Top

00:06 Bomb-a-rama
23:56 Cyber Sarge
23:45 James
23:41 jackal
23:37 Aris Katsaris
23:36 AJackson
23:33 jackal
23:29 lex
23:25 lex
23:24 lex
23:18 Atomic Conspiracy
22:54 Atomic Conspiracy
22:52 Sock Puppet of Doom
22:52 Laurence of the Rats
22:45 Atomic Conspiracy
22:44 Atomic Conspiracy
22:22 Sock Puppet of Doom
22:16 Pappy
22:16 Barbara Skolaut
22:06 Pappy
22:02 SC88
21:56 Stephen
21:51 Aris Katsaris
21:47 gromky