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To: LindyBill who wrote (78343)	2/28/2003 10:12:01 AM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hello Lindy Bill; I have Bolded a line I think is telling and true for a lot of the left. Thank you for telling me how I feel (aside from the fact that you are stupidly wrong...). --fl

To: LindyBill who wrote (78343)	2/28/2003 3:17:56 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

A genuinely dumb observation: Joseph Schumpeter, the eminent political economist, believed that while the average person was logical enough in personal matters, he "drops down to a lower level of mental performance . . . as soon as he enters the political field"--and stays there "in the face of meritorious efforts" to put facts before his face. If Schumpeter is correct, much of the opposition to war with Iraq is more than anything the politics of liberals here and the left in Europe who would not abide being led anywhere by a conservative U.S. administration. Hell no, they won't go, no matter how many resolutions are outputted by the Security Council. I think Schumpeter is completely wrong, whether he is an "eminent economist" (as he surely was) or just a guy who dropped in to the bar for a drink. Political discourse is no better or worse than economic discourse than you name it. However, the point of these paragraphs is different, it is that criticisms of the Bush administration hold no water because they have nothing to do with the facts. Of course, we know these same folk would have argued precisely the opposite about Clinton's policies. Criticism was a measure of higher intelligence; defense of lower intelligence. Give me a break.