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Because there aren't any good right wing oppressive regimes for the Right to get behind these days? snoopcester Send a noteboard - 01/09/2011 12:53:32 PM
The extremes on both sides are as bad as each other - so caught up in their own idealogy they can't see straight. There is just a lack of suitable regimes for the Right wing nutcases (like Maggie Thatcher with apartheid SA in the 80s and the support of the previous regime in Iran) to go all doe eyed about currently but there are still some for the Left wing nutcases.

From both sides there is the same willful blindness - they're so smitted with the few good points (from their perspective) that they can't (or won't) see the bad points.

Though I have noticed that some of the British right wing nutcases are starting to warm to China - "sure they do bad stuff... but they do execute people and exploit Africa so they can't be all bad, can they?"
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Why does the Left support dictators? Tom - 01/09/2011 02:37:25 AM 1264 Views
They don't. Dannymac - 01/09/2011 02:45:52 AM 827 Views
Do you have anyone besides those two? Roland00 - 01/09/2011 02:52:19 AM 797 Views
Well, he also mentioned Michael Moore Isaac - 01/09/2011 04:34:03 AM 681 Views
I ususally do not respond to threads like this, for many threads like this are done by unreasonable Roland00 - 01/09/2011 12:21:10 PM 582 Views
kucinich is moderate-left not far left moondog - 01/09/2011 04:42:49 AM 612 Views
I'm not trying to say they are mainstream left. Tom - 01/09/2011 02:39:18 PM 759 Views
I would agree currently that is true (if you are talking fringe left vs fringe right) Roland00 - 01/09/2011 03:59:45 PM 611 Views
As I mentioned in my reply to Legolas, 40 or 50 years ago it was mutual hypocrisy. Tom - 01/09/2011 08:01:23 PM 579 Views
don't confuse the far left with the vast majority of americans who support people like kucinich moondog - 01/09/2011 04:53:14 AM 817 Views
"the vast majority of americans who support people like kucinich" LOL thats funny *NM* random thoughts - 01/09/2011 01:19:12 PM 287 Views
Yeah, I don't think most people support that deranged hobbit Tom - 01/09/2011 02:43:55 PM 653 Views
Tom, leave the absurdist and patently false dichotomies to trzaska. *NM* Stephen - 01/09/2011 11:43:35 AM 368 Views
Or at least add a smiley to your subject *NM* beetnemesis - 01/09/2011 12:57:45 PM 372 Views
Why does the Left support dictators? *NM* beetnemesis - 01/09/2011 12:59:19 PM 394 Views
There's nothing absurdist about it. Tom - 01/09/2011 02:40:32 PM 744 Views
That's just it... it ISN'T that obvious. Dannymac - 01/09/2011 06:46:41 PM 714 Views
Because there aren't any good right wing oppressive regimes for the Right to get behind these days? snoopcester - 01/09/2011 12:53:32 PM 618 Views
Iran Great Lord of Chaos - 01/09/2011 04:06:04 PM 771 Views
Wrong religion *NM* snoopcester - 01/09/2011 07:09:24 PM 364 Views
I am going to get flamed for this...but how about Israel Roland00 - 01/09/2011 10:03:59 PM 718 Views
You should read Postwar. If you haven't already. Legolas - 01/09/2011 06:18:55 PM 826 Views
No, there is at least one more explanation snoopcester - 01/09/2011 07:05:11 PM 816 Views
Yes, anti-Americanism is a very significant part of the equation. *NM* Tom - 01/09/2011 08:02:05 PM 371 Views
Outside America, yes, definitely. He seemed to be talking about inside the US though. Legolas - 01/09/2011 08:26:27 PM 804 Views
True snoopcester - 01/09/2011 08:45:05 PM 732 Views
well anti-Americanism runs about as strong in the American left as it does in European left *NM* random thoughts - 01/09/2011 08:51:34 PM 410 Views
I was using US examples but not trying to limit myself to the US. Tom - 01/09/2011 09:57:57 PM 730 Views
I wanted to keep things confined to the present day. Tom - 01/09/2011 07:58:15 PM 607 Views
Hmm snoopcester - 01/09/2011 08:49:54 PM 645 Views
I disagree on the last point, and here's why: Tom - 01/09/2011 09:54:52 PM 767 Views
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way. *NM* Legolas - 01/09/2011 10:08:46 PM 361 Views
I think that does hold up to a point snoopcester - 02/09/2011 02:10:48 PM 685 Views
when you combine that with America's pro-British stance it explains why the Brits seem conflicted *NM* random thoughts - 01/09/2011 07:51:41 PM 406 Views
America has a pro-British stance? I'm thinking that'd be news to most Brits. *NM* Legolas - 01/09/2011 08:27:33 PM 417 Views
Well like most things the Brits think they know about the US they would be wrong random thoughts - 01/09/2011 08:48:47 PM 813 Views
Of course, they are all the non-Jedi bad guys in Star Wars. Dannymac - 01/09/2011 09:10:46 PM 661 Views
Or they just see things differently. Legolas - 01/09/2011 10:15:20 PM 683 Views
But the Brits do need us, and we don't need them. Tom - 02/09/2011 06:01:10 PM 657 Views
Of course it's obvious. That doesn't mean they have to like it, or can't resent it. *NM* Legolas - 02/09/2011 06:14:37 PM 382 Views
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. aerocontrols - 02/09/2011 01:25:40 AM 806 Views
how does that work for people like Chavez and Castro? random thoughts - 02/09/2011 01:30:02 PM 748 Views
Yes, that's how it works aerocontrols - 02/09/2011 10:29:38 PM 699 Views
I think your historical argument is flawed Tom - 02/09/2011 05:57:00 PM 858 Views
Possibly aerocontrols - 02/09/2011 10:37:19 PM 789 Views
I think that something has fundamentally changed now. Tom - 02/09/2011 11:21:02 PM 645 Views
I don't find your argument very convincing. Vodalus - 06/09/2011 05:20:12 AM 924 Views
... I don't. Camilla - 06/09/2011 08:44:27 AM 726 Views
Apologies, I was sure I responded to this when you first posted the thread. Joel - 07/10/2011 05:55:27 AM 787 Views
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