Political metaphors (was Re: on ann coulter

[jbor]

Otto: 
> 
> 
> Well, if you're too far out on the left you'll meet with those from the far
> right on the ideological circle.


JBFRAME at aol.com:
> 
> An ancient canard that has been used to justify all the hypocrisy of both
> classic & modern liberalism.
> If you get too far from the much-loved "middle-of-the-road" you are a crazy
> leftist who is becoming a rightist.


And Joe Stalin, Pol Pot and the perpetrators of the Tianamen Square massacre
are just misunderstood. While Castro's and other "Left" regimes allow a
healthy discourse of dissent in their countries' literature and media.

Give us a break.

All that the "Left" seems capable of nowadays, if its advocates here are
anything to go by, is weaving together ad hominem attacks on anyone who
"dissents" with some of the stupidest conspiracy theories I've seen. It's
just empty posturing. History (and Orwell) have demonstrated the truth in
the metaphor which Otto used.

best

p.s. Wasn't Jim Hightower the guy in the 'Police Academy' movies? Like those
movies, the ideology-as-road metaphor sucks rocks.


> As Jim Hightower (a notorious leftist)
> has said, "There ain't nothing in the middle of the road but road kill &
> yellow stripes."  People on the "left" have been laughing at this for many
> years.  The label "politically correct," which came about during the "Great
> Proletarian Cultural Revolution" in China was a joke to campus activists in
> the 60s -- at least to the non-maoists.
> 
> "I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine
> that gets the dirt out." --Jim Hightower

>