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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Carolyn who wrote (33428)10/16/2001 11:57:54 PM
From: The Philosopher   of 82486
 
I wouldn't say she's a traitor. That requires something more than blaming your country for causing all the ills of the world while giving it no credit for all the good it does. That's simply modern liberalism. Misguided, yes, very, but not treason.

But ever since WWII, and especially since the end of the Cold War, it's been a game with neoliberals to see how many ways they can find to excoriate the US and how many ways they can find to excuse its enemies and justify condemnation of it. That doesn't surprise me -- it's right in there with blaming dead white men for all the evils of the world.

What does surprise me is the ability of people who are far from stupid to maintain a total disconnect between the right to freedom of speech and the price that has been paid to create and maintain that right. The idea that freedom should be free, when throughout history we have learned over and over that it is anything but.

That goes along with the ability to condemn dead white males for all the evils of the world while refusing to recognize that they had anything to do with creating the political systems which allow people to excoriate them and the economic and scientific advances which give us the lifestyle which provides the opportunity, time, and resources to exercise that right.

It's like people driving their Beemers and Cadillacs to rallies to protest the evils of the capitalist system, or their SUVs to rallies to protest the destruction of the environment.

Somehow we have raised a generation many well educated members of which totally missed the lessons on cause and effect.

But being vapid and ignorant still doesn't constitute treason.
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