It’s an honor to be attacked by the left and the right.

[kpete]

They want to divide us by race, gender, and sexual orientation: they want to divide us along “right” and “left” lines. That’s the War Party’s strategy, and, so far, it’s worked like a charm – thanks to the cable news mentality that dominates the discourse, and continues to block the antiwar movement from making any appreciable gains. Like the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Gauvreau-Patton Pact is ostensibly a union of opposites, but really these two characters aren’t really antipodes at all. They both are dogmatically committed to the left-right politics that have kept the worst on top, lo these many years, because both gain from maintaining the paradigm intact. The Patton half profits materially – keep getting those government contracts! – while the Gauvreau-ites imagine they’ll profit politically. And maybe the Socialist Actioneers will pick up a few more recruits – but is that really worth turning the antiwar movement into a left-wing sideshow, and derailing a mass movement against US war crimes abroad?

more:
http://mycatbirdseat.com/2010/08/justin-raimondo-folly-left-and-right/

[old mark]

1. Pete, if you are not pissing someone off, you are not doing it right....

all the best.
rec.
mark

[SteveM]

6. Curious, when I hear MSM say "we get criticized by left & right" I want to puke...

They act like there is a viable Left left. My god, do they teach that crap in J-school? Frankly, I think one of the great myths of modern politics is that the country is "polarized." It isn't. The country's dominant political force is the Far Right and its corporate sponsors. The Left (whatever that is) has been turned away from the Democratic Party since the McGovern "debacle" of the early 70s.

There is no opposition; there is no polarization.

[old mark]

7. The right still think the Washington Post is a "liberal" paper since the

Watergate stories...they are a little slow sometimes...


mark

[SteveM]

8. I think they have moved back to the center, but that's my opinion.

[niceypoo]

2. "derailing a mass movement against US war crimes abroad"

Isn't that why we elect Democrats to the office of president? My, how far we have fallen.

[mmonk]

4. Yes, in a way or at least was the intention of many.

[mmonk]

3. IBTL

The war party is both parties although there are a few on both sides of the divide against it.

[Rex]

5. The M$M is complicit with the War Hawks in keeping our troops in harms way.

We were warned, 'bullets or butter' and THAT was from a republican over 50 years ago!