Well, there is room for argument from the other side, too.
There were a lot of non-intelligentsia right wing sympathizers in the UK and here for Hitler. While right wing Joe Six Pack probably had no idea he existed, our government supported a very bad guy by the name of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua. There were lots of others, especially in Latin America.
Left wing Harry the Hippie supported Castro, worked in his cane fields when it was cool and hip to do so. Now, he likes Chavez, that thug, and probably admires Ahamdinejad because A. strokes Harry's antisemitic streak. And Che, oh, Harry just loved Che, and probably still does from the comfort of his Dilbertian cubicle as Harry slaves away for some giant corporation. But Che, for all his idealism, facilitated the subjugation of the Cuban people as much as Castro did. He was a thug, too.
Harry likes hip and cool, whether it is dumb and dumber matters not too much, e.g., the whole global warming thingie, the superiority of organic foods, the political acumen of uneducated Hollywood dumb bunnies, etc. Joe sometimes follows leaders a little too closely. Harry likes pot and other drugs, which make him placid and stupid. Joe drinks beer, which makes him aggressive and obnoxious.
Times have changed, the argumentation is different.
As CB very aptly said, I like anyone who is for democracy and free markets. It seems that the left looks very differently at those two than I do so I am a right-thinking right winger.
And intellectually? Psssh, there is no argument that the right makes far better arguments than the left, as a whole. I mean, just look at the quality of the lefty posts here. Laughable. |
