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I think that something has fundamentally changed now. Tom Send a noteboard - 02/09/2011 11:21:02 PM
The world is slowly shifting in favor of democracies generally, particularly because radical socialist experiments still fail everywhere and with incredible speed. Chavez turned Venezuela into a broken nation, with supply problems and terrible inflation and falling oil revenues due to inefficient production. Because the fundamental failure of Marxism (or any mutated variant thereof, like "Bolivarianism" ), the right is unlikely to feel that existential threat that would make dictators appealing.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

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Why does the Left support dictators? - 01/09/2011 02:37:25 AM 1208 Views
They don't. - 01/09/2011 02:45:52 AM 768 Views
Do you have anyone besides those two? - 01/09/2011 02:52:19 AM 742 Views
kucinich is moderate-left not far left - 01/09/2011 04:42:49 AM 560 Views
Tom, leave the absurdist and patently false dichotomies to trzaska. *NM* - 01/09/2011 11:43:35 AM 347 Views
Or at least add a smiley to your subject *NM* - 01/09/2011 12:57:45 PM 353 Views
Why does the Left support dictators? *NM* - 01/09/2011 12:59:19 PM 375 Views
There's nothing absurdist about it. - 01/09/2011 02:40:32 PM 682 Views
That's just it... it ISN'T that obvious. - 01/09/2011 06:46:41 PM 659 Views
Because there aren't any good right wing oppressive regimes for the Right to get behind these days? - 01/09/2011 12:53:32 PM 565 Views
Iran - 01/09/2011 04:06:04 PM 713 Views
Wrong religion *NM* - 01/09/2011 07:09:24 PM 337 Views
I am going to get flamed for this...but how about Israel - 01/09/2011 10:03:59 PM 661 Views
You should read Postwar. If you haven't already. - 01/09/2011 06:18:55 PM 766 Views
No, there is at least one more explanation - 01/09/2011 07:05:11 PM 757 Views
Outside America, yes, definitely. He seemed to be talking about inside the US though. - 01/09/2011 08:26:27 PM 744 Views
True - 01/09/2011 08:45:05 PM 676 Views
I wanted to keep things confined to the present day. - 01/09/2011 07:58:15 PM 545 Views
Hmm - 01/09/2011 08:49:54 PM 588 Views
I disagree on the last point, and here's why: - 01/09/2011 09:54:52 PM 708 Views
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way. *NM* - 01/09/2011 10:08:46 PM 339 Views
I think that does hold up to a point - 02/09/2011 02:10:48 PM 630 Views
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. - 02/09/2011 01:25:40 AM 739 Views
how does that work for people like Chavez and Castro? - 02/09/2011 01:30:02 PM 694 Views
Yes, that's how it works - 02/09/2011 10:29:38 PM 646 Views
I think your historical argument is flawed - 02/09/2011 05:57:00 PM 802 Views
Possibly - 02/09/2011 10:37:19 PM 728 Views
I think that something has fundamentally changed now. - 02/09/2011 11:21:02 PM 591 Views
I don't find your argument very convincing. - 06/09/2011 05:20:12 AM 866 Views
... I don't. - 06/09/2011 08:44:27 AM 671 Views

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