Maggie's Farm

Jonah Goldberg is a top-flight political thinker, and whoever came up with that illo on the book cover is a genius black-humorist. And kudos to B for publicizing an urgent topic.

As that NewsWeek editor said, the MSM is good for a 15% vote swing in any given election. No wonder the guild feels powerful--it IS powerful.

Be nice if it was halfway honest,too, and didn't vote 80% Democrat--but then that's the nut of the world's problems, right there, the left-wing American press, standing athwart all solutions to all problems, in honor of its sophomore poli-sci professor, and its need for chronic beefs to demagogue, raise new activists, and let them live the exciting black-helicopter play-Che life of the mind (when not busy enjoying the fat of the land, that is).

Anyhoo the book review--scroll down an inch plus in the link--runs thru a lot of leftism & nazism associations but skips a big one--how ''green'' the Nazis were, with their nature worship and hatred of, mankind's transgressive pollution.

Mankind had to be hateful in general, in order to raise up out of the messy masses the unblemished Aryan, and with blood & iron weld him--only him--to his soil.

In today's fascism that Aryan is the progressive intellectual, whose mystic chords of enlightenment alone can grasp the Greater Truth behind all those tawdry little normal ordinary traditional truths that must be herded into concentration camps and systematically murdered for the greater glory of the thousand year nanny state.

good thing Alma ain't over the line in Alabama--that'd be a worse tonguetwister than trying to say 'yellow leather yellow leather' outloud.

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Quite a question. Different angles of answer.

There's the '7 deadly sins' to review.

Also, willful absence of research can serve an emotional need.

Then there's this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Temperaments

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tom, i read somewhere--wish i could recall where--that the Italian Communist Party was tapped by USSR with specific instructions on ginning up & launching the ''far right'' meme for the Axis fascisms.

IOW it was a deliberate initiative--akin to Stalin's airbrushing freshly-interred enemies of the state completely out of the historical records.

someone once said something like, in the real world people know the past but not the future, but under communism they know the future but not the past.

''The book is going to have lots and lots of enemies''

boy i'll say. it's a center shot. the only shield will be that it is the truth.