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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 1322 Views
They don't. - 01/09/2011 02:45:52 AM 883 Views
Do you have anyone besides those two? - 01/09/2011 02:52:19 AM 856 Views
kucinich is moderate-left not far left - 01/09/2011 04:42:49 AM 664 Views
Tom, leave the absurdist and patently false dichotomies to trzaska. *NM* - 01/09/2011 11:43:35 AM 394 Views
Or at least add a smiley to your subject *NM* - 01/09/2011 12:57:45 PM 398 Views
Why does the Left support dictators? *NM* - 01/09/2011 12:59:19 PM 420 Views
There's nothing absurdist about it. - 01/09/2011 02:40:32 PM 802 Views
That's just it... it ISN'T that obvious. - 01/09/2011 06:46:41 PM 763 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 668 Views
Iran - 01/09/2011 04:06:04 PM 832 Views
Wrong religion *NM* - 01/09/2011 07:09:24 PM 393 Views
I am going to get flamed for this...but how about Israel - 01/09/2011 10:03:59 PM 768 Views
You should read Postwar. If you haven't already. - 01/09/2011 06:18:55 PM 887 Views
No, there is at least one more explanation - 01/09/2011 07:05:11 PM 873 Views
Outside America, yes, definitely. He seemed to be talking about inside the US though. - 01/09/2011 08:26:27 PM 861 Views
True - 01/09/2011 08:45:05 PM 787 Views
I wanted to keep things confined to the present day. - 01/09/2011 07:58:15 PM 658 Views
Hmm - 01/09/2011 08:49:54 PM 700 Views
I disagree on the last point, and here's why: - 01/09/2011 09:54:52 PM 821 Views
Interesting. I hadn't thought of it that way. *NM* - 01/09/2011 10:08:46 PM 389 Views
I think that does hold up to a point - 02/09/2011 02:10:48 PM 750 Views
The enemy of my enemy is my friend. - 02/09/2011 01:25:40 AM 862 Views
how does that work for people like Chavez and Castro? - 02/09/2011 01:30:02 PM 805 Views
Yes, that's how it works - 02/09/2011 10:29:38 PM 755 Views
I think your historical argument is flawed - 02/09/2011 05:57:00 PM 911 Views
Possibly - 02/09/2011 10:37:19 PM 840 Views
I think that something has fundamentally changed now. - 02/09/2011 11:21:02 PM 700 Views
I don't find your argument very convincing. - 06/09/2011 05:20:12 AM 978 Views
... I don't. - 06/09/2011 08:44:27 AM 785 Views

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