QUOTE: from the rabidly anti-war Eric Alterman, in an otherwise intriguing column:
"Will Hutton, a former editor of the Observer, wrote a book portraying the United States as in "the extraordinary grip of Christian fundamentalism"; boasting a "democracy" that is "an offense to democratic ideals," where the "dominant conservatism is very ideological, almost Leninist," "
-I find this ironic because my American Political Thought textbook, written by a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist, no less, contends that there are no conservatives in America, and that there rarely ever have been any, but that there are really just two kinds of liberals here. Makes you think.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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