Power, Propaganda and Conscience in The War On Terror

[Nostradumbass at SAFe-mail.net]

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From: "Tyler Durden" <camera_lumina at hotmail.com>
To: Nostradumbass at SAFe-mail.net, cypherpunks at minder.net
Subject: RE: Power, Propaganda and Conscience in The War On Terror
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 15:12:00 -0500

> As a big, sloppy footnote to this, I'd point out that (these days) anything 
> that does not jibe with the current right-wing party line is now called 
> "Left", even though there's really not much that is particularly left 
> economically (or politically for that matter) in what's said in quotes such 
> as below. It seems odd to me that such a wide variety of political views are 
> all called "left" simply they don't proclaim the US as savior-to-the-world.

Point taken.

One reason Iraq has not inflamed most adult and the media is, unlike Vietnam, their kids are not going.  Our volunteer army means little politcal consequence to a constant stream of bodybags (no longer ever shown on TV) and walking wounded returning home.  The soaring deficit hasn't yet had consequences affecting the average Joe so why care?

> 
> Of course, there are those with fairly leftist views in these ranks, but 
> that's not all that relevant. The interesting thing however is that American 
> liberalism is now seen as right-wing (in the pro-US policy sense) by 
> international "leftists" (meaning international dissidents), indicating it's 
> complete and total moral failure.

There is no credible "left' in the U.S., just as there are credible libertarians.  The young are so focused on materialsim that they won't hear the door swing shut on the last of their constitutional liberties while searching for the TV remote to select the newest "reality" show.

ND