Reply #9: I like that, Joanne98, but I do want to quibble with a line of argument about Left versus Right: [View All]

[bertman]

" . . . the Right envisions a society in which no government can encompass a corporation, while the Left desires a society in which no Corporation can encompass or purchase a government. Moreover, as the Right has become increasingly extreme in its views, the purer manifestations of this Objectivist lunacy increasingly have the loudest, tea-addled voices. Clearly these twain cannot and will not meet. There is a Left. There is a Right. There is a battle royale, and it is not illusory."

The Right is no more monolithic than the Left. I have many friends who consider themselves conservatives or right-wingers for any number of reasons. They puff all up when I challenge their reasons for supporting the more virulent crap that Limbaugh and O'Reilly and company put forth as reasoned argument. But, bottom line, THEY ARE NOT CORPORATISTS. They are folks who have been conned into believing that Big Government is the problem, when the reality is it's Big Business that's the problem. They can be disabused of these notions if one can show them the many ways that government SERVES them that they take for granted and do not want to give up: police protection, fire protection, safe food, clean water, clean air, good highways, the VA, to name a few. Just ask them how they'd like for some international conglomerate controlled by Saudi princes to run their local police department and see the reaction you get.

Most of the 'foot soldiers' on the right are one short firing of a synapse away from becoming Left Wingers. It's up to the marketing geniuses of the Progressive wing to come up with the ads and the pithy slogans that will fire those synapses.

Most Americans who work for a living believe in fairness. The Left is all about fairness. The Right is all about exclusivity. If we can ever get that message across we will have a lot of converts from the right side of the political spectrum.

REGARDING Organizing. I agree completely and will begin working to that end.

Rec.