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I think that something has fundamentally changed now. Tom Send a noteboard - 02/09/2011 11:21:02 PM
The world is slowly shifting in favor of democracies generally, particularly because radical socialist experiments still fail everywhere and with incredible speed. Chavez turned Venezuela into a broken nation, with supply problems and terrible inflation and falling oil revenues due to inefficient production. Because the fundamental failure of Marxism (or any mutated variant thereof, like "Bolivarianism" ), the right is unlikely to feel that existential threat that would make dictators appealing.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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Why does the Left support dictators? - 01/09/2011 02:37:25 AM 1239 Views
They don't. - 01/09/2011 02:45:52 AM 803 Views
Do you have anyone besides those two? - 01/09/2011 02:52:19 AM 776 Views
kucinich is moderate-left not far left - 01/09/2011 04:42:49 AM 594 Views
Tom, leave the absurdist and patently false dichotomies to trzaska. *NM* - 01/09/2011 11:43:35 AM 359 Views
Or at least add a smiley to your subject *NM* - 01/09/2011 12:57:45 PM 365 Views
Why does the Left support dictators? *NM* - 01/09/2011 12:59:19 PM 385 Views
There's nothing absurdist about it. - 01/09/2011 02:40:32 PM 717 Views
That's just it... it ISN'T that obvious. - 01/09/2011 06:46:41 PM 690 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 598 Views
Iran - 01/09/2011 04:06:04 PM 748 Views
Wrong religion *NM* - 01/09/2011 07:09:24 PM 351 Views
I am going to get flamed for this...but how about Israel - 01/09/2011 10:03:59 PM 694 Views
You should read Postwar. If you haven't already. - 01/09/2011 06:18:55 PM 802 Views
No, there is at least one more explanation - 01/09/2011 07:05:11 PM 791 Views
Outside America, yes, definitely. He seemed to be talking about inside the US though. - 01/09/2011 08:26:27 PM 782 Views
True - 01/09/2011 08:45:05 PM 711 Views
I wanted to keep things confined to the present day. - 01/09/2011 07:58:15 PM 584 Views
Hmm - 01/09/2011 08:49:54 PM 624 Views
I disagree on the last point, and here's why: - 01/09/2011 09:54:52 PM 747 Views
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way. *NM* - 01/09/2011 10:08:46 PM 353 Views
I think that does hold up to a point - 02/09/2011 02:10:48 PM 666 Views
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. - 02/09/2011 01:25:40 AM 770 Views
how does that work for people like Chavez and Castro? - 02/09/2011 01:30:02 PM 728 Views
Yes, that's how it works - 02/09/2011 10:29:38 PM 682 Views
I think your historical argument is flawed - 02/09/2011 05:57:00 PM 838 Views
Possibly - 02/09/2011 10:37:19 PM 763 Views
I think that something has fundamentally changed now. - 02/09/2011 11:21:02 PM 624 Views
I don't find your argument very convincing. - 06/09/2011 05:20:12 AM 903 Views
... I don't. - 06/09/2011 08:44:27 AM 707 Views

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