Archive for December 12th, 2008

Simmons on Liberalism

I wrote the piece below because, once again, instead of bitching, I am about to write a piece praising Simmons. It occurred to me that you might wonder how ANYBODY, especially Ole Bob, could be writing so many upbeat pieces at a time like this.

It was self-defense. If I stay this nice for this long it is only a matter of time before one of you calls the Ding-A-Ling Ward and asks the guys with the butterfly nets to go by my apartment.

Simmons has been emphasizing a critical point: A reassessment of our enemies.

There has been a complete change in the left since fifty years ago when I was already experienced in this fight. Back then the left was, as S says, an actual, identifiable bloc. “No enemies on the Left” had a meaning it does not have today.

Saint Martin Luther the King could jump from bus boycotts to supporting the Viet Cong without a noticeable bump because everybody understood it was the same crowd.

Then it was a bloc with a common goal. Now it is a rattling coalition.

As I said, when Saint ML the K began his predictable change of emphasis in the 60s no one needed an explanation of it. On June 22, 1941, the whole far left went straight from all-out support of the non-interventionist America Firsters to a demand that America get into the War. They had been America Firsters since the Russo-German Pact was signed at the end of August, 1939.

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I Give Credit Only When It’s DUE

I have been giving some credit in the last few entries. This is not a calculated strategy. It is because YOU have given me things to give credit ABOUT. Richard noticed Prometheus’s PRACTICAL success in OV.

Instead of talking off the top of your heads ENTIRELY, though there is plenty of room for that, some of you do my thinking for me, boiling down our strategy, which is WORK.

SysOps recruited the invaluable BoardAd and does what only she can do, and Shari is to the point. So I gave the distaff side some points.

I can’t make this up, gang, I don’t go by How to Win Friends and influence People and decide it’s time to give credit to roll you along. I am not that tricky and you are not that dumb.

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