| The Ghost of RubangB said: America is a socialist nation in denial. We'll vote for a bailout and then whine about it. We all want health care but we'll all cry about socialism. It's really funny. When the economy is good, we want to get rid of every regulation and give all the money to the rich, but when the economy is bad, we want to regulate the hell out of everything to protect the rich. And as we go back and forth, the poor are screwed either way. |
@ whatever: Yes, you are right. Fascism is really in its own category on the spectrum. It blends a lot of elements of the right and left philosophies.
@ rubang: Exactly, this is the white elephant in the room all the time, especially now that the neocons have power.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
