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[Thomas Eckhardt]

"Ernie is a fool", "P's satire of Ernie"? I think you need some textual 
evidence to back this claim up.

Am 27.02.2016 um 18:30 schrieb ish mailian:
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 12:28 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ernie is a fool. Not a bad person or anything, a cool old guy who can
>> keep the children amused and tell cold war stories, but a fool who,
>> like so many of his political and paranoid persuasion, applies a
>> paranoid political analysis to his family and parents his children and
>> grandchildren by an analysis that, while theoretically handy for
>> global and national, political, social and cultural stuff, the
>> zeitgeist, the times that are a changing, is useless and even
>> dangerous when applied to one's own life, to one's family and
>> neighborhood. We might think of P's satire of Ernie as a critique,
>> from the Left of the Left's use of Doctor Spock and the debate he was
>> dragged into over the Vietnam War and Resistance to it.
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