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Actually, if you read Krugman’s book ( which I just finished yesterday on the train) he points out that Nixon was one of the first major candidates to exploit peoples fear and use it to their political advantage. He parlayed it into a win in 1968 and much of the spade work had been done by Ronald Reagan in 1966 during his run for California govenor.
I think there is some merit in the idea that Obama supporters just don’t like Hillary. I know I don’t like her-and I can’t stand Bush. So if she is on the ticket for the Dems-there will be no place to go except McCain. Problem with that is that you inherit, in many ways, another 4 years of Bushes policies-which we would all be better off without.
If there is a hate genie to be let out of the bottle-it was the Clintons who did it-no one else. Or perhaps they have just learned it from the Republicans. That’s Krugman’s real point.
To the specious claim that “Nixon was one of the first major candidates to exploit peoples[sic] fear and use it to their political advantage” and “perhaps they have just learned it from the Republicans”, I have a one word answer – Daisy.
If that is Krugman’s central point, then his books are as ill-informed and full of lies as his syndicated columns. That is no mean feat, I assure you.
This is in many ways a continuation of the last thread regarding civil discourse. Public discourse has become absolutely abysmal.
Recently in my local community paper, I was painted in a collective sense as a “ninny, robot and protofascist” by a far left leaning college professor that lives in our community.
For some reason, the left thinks they have permission to say anything in the public arena that they so choose. It is constantly the right that remains civil. Why do you think so much attention was paid to Dick Cheney when he told a member of Congress to f**k off? Because it was so unusual…
I find it tremendously entertaining when the left joins in a war of words against their own.
I think it has come to pass in this country that within the major population centers there exists a decaying view of the right of free speech. Whereas once it meant the freeedom to express a dissenting view without fear of reprisal, it now seems to mean the right to say or print whatever one feels like as long as certain select interests aren’t offended. To me, this is abuse of a right, no less so than failure to properly handle a firearm or failure to vote in an election. It’s a failure to respect the purpose of freedom of speech and that contributes to it’s decay. Nothing in the Constitution or Bill of Rights was ever intended to protect the propagation of hate through public speech, nor the perpetrator from its appropriate consequences.
Daisy worked because movement conservatives could get Goldwater nominated-but could not translate him into something real people could understand.
If you are a card carrying member of CPAC, Krugman’s books have no value-and I do think there are some issues with his latest book-but on the whole I enjoyed it. Mainly because he is right on the mark when talks about the economic disenfranchisement of so many Americans that has occurred during the last 14 years. That I agree with 100%.