Um... could this be "it"?

[Mark Kohut]

This is ridiculous in its basic argument which is overtly undemocratic and
therefore authoritarian....Proclamations, Demagoguery.

To criticize some of the critics BACK is NOT to compromise
principles....That line about "if anyone challenges etc....therefore
Denounce them! And denounce their master Putin!" is the worst kind
of straw man demagoguery.....Putin can--and should be denounced-- based on
the facts and all irresponsible neo-liberalism should also be denounced....
You have not yet internalized Pynchon's brilliance in his deep principle
that either/or is (basically) false to reality, as I see it.

And a crazy quilt of examples to make an overgeneralizing held-truth. Once
again.

 Who in the hell brought up a book we haven't read and "one observer" as
the FULL
dismissive truth--talk about denouncing!-- of all "liberal media"....the
mind reels at such supposed "thinking"....look up overgeneralization in any
Logic text.





On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 3:16 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Just so newbies don't think this list is an extension of Daily Kos...
>
> As usual, Michiko Kakutani is wrong. The American public
> managed to get this angry and confused all by itself. Richard Hofstadter
> called this the paranoid style of American politics, and his analysis is as
> valid now as it was in 1964:
>
> "American politics has often been an arena for angry
> minds. In recent years we have seen angry minds at work
> mainly among extreme right-wingers, who have now
> demonstrated in the Goldwater movement how much political
> leverage can be got out of the animosities and passions of
> a small minority. But behind this I believe there is a
> style of mind that is far from new and that is not
> necessarily right-wing. I call it the paranoid style
> simply because no other word adequately evokes the sense
> of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial
> fantasy that I have in mind."
>
> And then there is this:
>
> 'As for Eisenhower himself, Welch characterized him, in
> words that have made the candy manufacturer famous, as “a
> dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy”—a
> conclusion, he added, “based on an accumulation of
> detailed evidence so extensive and so palpable that it
> seems to put this conviction beyond any reasonable
> doubt.”'
>
> https://harpers.org/archive/1964/11/the-paranoid-style-in-am
> erican-politics/
>
> As for Jill Stein as a "Russian asset", there is only one
> question:
>
> "How long are American liberals going to put up with this
> bullshit?"
>
> Yes. And how many principles are they willing to compromise, how many
> former allies are they willing to demonize and marginalize? Parry, Hersh,
> Assange, Snowden, Hedges, Stein... What's next? Martin Luther King as a
> Kremlin stooge, like the FBI always said he was? Black Lives Matter as a
> fifth column of the Kremlin? Susan Sarandon as Putin's "useful idiot"?
>
> https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/28/jill-stein-in-the-cr
> osshairs-the-russia-investigation-shifts-to-clintons-political-rivals/
>
> As C. J. Hopkins says, we are witnessing a war on dissent:
>
> https://consentfactory.org/2018/01/26/the-war-on-dissent/
>
> "If anyone challenges incremental, corporate-funded, hyper-militaristic
> neoliberalism in any way, I know what to do: Denounce them! And denounce
> their master, Putin."
>
> http://www.chris-floyd.com/home/articles/a-liberal-s-confess
> ion-16012018.html
>
> The abominable state of the so-called liberal media is perfectly
> illustrated in this interview with the Guardian's Luke Harding:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ikf1uZli4g
>
> As one observer noted:
>
> "How can you write an entire book called COLLUSION and
> then not be able to coherently and convincingly answer a
> single question or offer a single fact which undeniably
> proves that collusion took place?"
>
>
>
>
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