Re: Larry Niven: Terrorize Latinos to Solve Health Care Crisis

David Friedman wrote:

>  Kurt Busiek <kurt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > The term apparently originated with Mao, so "far left" would seem
> > to fit.  It came into use in the US both as ironic jabs at the
> > pomposity of the politically-rigid and, by people without a sense
> > of irony, as a straightforward term.  The straghtforward use fell
> > away pretty quickly -- since it is pretty pompous and rigid -- but
> > what thereafter adopted by the right as a beatin' stick, who have
> > been insisting it's in common use on the left for close to thirty
> > years now, despite the people actually on the left not hearing it
> > used unironically much at all.
> 
> I suspect the claim is not that the term is currently in common use
> on the left but that the concept is, which I suspect is true.
> Probably not only on the left.
> 
> Consider, for example, the flap over Ron Paul's perfectly reasonable 
> point that 9/11 was in part a consequence of past American foreign 
> policy.

But the US has _never_ made foreign policy mistakes!  And those
mistakes were all made by leftists!  And the ones made by conservatives
were unavoidable!  And they weren't real conservatives!

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Dan Goodman
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