WI_DEM
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 03:53 PM
Original message |
Barry Goldwater: "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; |
|
moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."
Goldwater said this in his 1964 GOP acceptance speech when he was accused of being an "extremist". Is he right? I happen to agree with part of what he said, though in '64 I'm sure it had other meanings.
|
unblock
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 03:56 PM
Response to Original message |
1. i think extremism is great, in moderation. |
William Seger
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 04:01 PM
Response to Reply #1 |
4. Right, nothing wrong with extremism... |
|
... as long as you don't get carried away with it.
|
longship
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 03:59 PM
Response to Original message |
2. John Dean: Barry Goldwater would be a liberal today. |
thereismore
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 04:00 PM
Response to Reply #2 |
3. left of center, to be exact. nt |
Selatius
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 04:44 PM
Response to Reply #3 |
7. Too far left for American politics |
|
Even supposed leftwingers in Congress today are supporters of the neoliberal free trade agenda.
|
Jim__
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 04:02 PM
Response to Original message |
5. I think that dropping a "small" atom bomb on Vietnam would be a vice. |
|
Edited on Wed Aug-09-06 04:03 PM by Jim__
Sometimes extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice. But, it can be.
|
Boojatta
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 04:42 PM
Response to Original message |
6. How about this: "Virtue in the defense of vice is no virtue; and |
|
vice in the defense of virtue is no vice." Agree? Disagree? Does it make any sense?
|
Boojatta
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Wed Aug-09-06 04:52 PM
Response to Original message |
|
It is no vice for the vice squad to be against vice; and it is not extremist for the extremist squad to be against extremism, but extreme rhetoric in the defense of other extreme rhetoric is very Goldwaterish.
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Fri Apr 19th 2024, 03:53 PM
Response to Original message |