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Tom, leave the absurdist and patently false dichotomies to trzaska. *NM* Stephen Send a noteboard - 01/09/2011 11:43:35 AM
I've noticed that people on the Left like to throw around epithets to describe those on the right like "fascist" and "Nazi". If those Leftists have ties to the Third World, they also like to throw in "colonialist aggressors" or "capitalist imperialists" or simply "oppressors".

However, the Left seems to cozy up to dictators these days far more than the Right. Al Jazeera just today reported on how Dennis Kucinich wrote to the Gaddafi regime as late as this August to try to discredit the NTC as part of his effort to, and I quote, "bring a lawsuit against NATO/UN/USA". Cynthia McKinney just got back from a whirlwind trip of cozying up to Ahmadinejad, Gaddafi and other dictators who are up to their elbows (or higher) in the blood of innocents (and I hope the FBI investigates the source of her funds for those trips). Still others support Chavez and Castro and somehow think that totalitarian and authoritarian regimes can be forgiven if they talk about helping out poor people in between jailing people for dissent and killing off enemies in one fashion or another.

The hypocrisy is overwhelming. Anti-war activists actually supported Gaddafi, because somehow in their minds a brutal peace, enforced with state-sanctioned murder, is better than a short civil war of liberation. Others somehow see the free market as the ultimate evil - despite the fact that Castro has killed thousands of people directly and holds Cuba in total poverty, Michael Moore loves Castro because he has free medicine and opposes that evil system that asks that supply and demand dictate prices.
"I mean, if everyone had a soul, there would be no contrast by which we could appreciate it. For giving us this perspective, we thank you." - Nate
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Why does the Left support dictators? - 01/09/2011 02:37:25 AM 1174 Views
They don't. - 01/09/2011 02:45:52 AM 735 Views
Do you have anyone besides those two? - 01/09/2011 02:52:19 AM 715 Views
kucinich is moderate-left not far left - 01/09/2011 04:42:49 AM 533 Views
Tom, leave the absurdist and patently false dichotomies to trzaska. *NM* - 01/09/2011 11:43:35 AM 337 Views
Or at least add a smiley to your subject *NM* - 01/09/2011 12:57:45 PM 341 Views
Why does the Left support dictators? *NM* - 01/09/2011 12:59:19 PM 364 Views
There's nothing absurdist about it. - 01/09/2011 02:40:32 PM 651 Views
That's just it... it ISN'T that obvious. - 01/09/2011 06:46:41 PM 632 Views
Because there aren't any good right wing oppressive regimes for the Right to get behind these days? - 01/09/2011 12:53:32 PM 533 Views
Iran - 01/09/2011 04:06:04 PM 669 Views
Wrong religion *NM* - 01/09/2011 07:09:24 PM 326 Views
I am going to get flamed for this...but how about Israel - 01/09/2011 10:03:59 PM 631 Views
You should read Postwar. If you haven't already. - 01/09/2011 06:18:55 PM 735 Views
No, there is at least one more explanation - 01/09/2011 07:05:11 PM 729 Views
Outside America, yes, definitely. He seemed to be talking about inside the US though. - 01/09/2011 08:26:27 PM 710 Views
True - 01/09/2011 08:45:05 PM 647 Views
I wanted to keep things confined to the present day. - 01/09/2011 07:58:15 PM 516 Views
Hmm - 01/09/2011 08:49:54 PM 563 Views
I disagree on the last point, and here's why: - 01/09/2011 09:54:52 PM 676 Views
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way. *NM* - 01/09/2011 10:08:46 PM 327 Views
I think that does hold up to a point - 02/09/2011 02:10:48 PM 599 Views
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. - 02/09/2011 01:25:40 AM 713 Views
how does that work for people like Chavez and Castro? - 02/09/2011 01:30:02 PM 667 Views
Yes, that's how it works - 02/09/2011 10:29:38 PM 613 Views
I think your historical argument is flawed - 02/09/2011 05:57:00 PM 770 Views
Possibly - 02/09/2011 10:37:19 PM 698 Views
I think that something has fundamentally changed now. - 02/09/2011 11:21:02 PM 562 Views
I don't find your argument very convincing. - 06/09/2011 05:20:12 AM 839 Views
... I don't. - 06/09/2011 08:44:27 AM 639 Views

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