Your editorial this morning ( Oct.27) " Buchanan leaves the fold" at least refrained from that silly Nazi smear. Buchanan's opinion that the two party system is a " snare and a delusion and a fraud on the nation " is nothing new: This was the sacred dogma of the Old Left - and even the New Left in the rebellious 60s.
Where is it written in the Constitution that we must have a two party system ? And it is quite true from a LEFT perspective that both the Democrat and Republican parties support capitalist " free enterprise " .
The horrible failure of EVERY society that boldly proclaimed itself to be Communist -and the horrific collapse of the Soviet Union - now make us take world capitalism for granted. Would the American people even think about voting for Capitalism ?
Third parties - pro or anti- capitalist - have a right to exist. And the cards should not be stacked against them. They must be allowed to succeed or fail on the basis of the political reality check - a fair election.
Who says that money must win every important election ? Often enough the right ideas will win !
My grandfather, a Providence cop in the Depression years, thought that FDR and the New Deal made all the difference in the world to the working class. He had a family of five to support in those dreadful years.
Of course there is still a difference between the Republican and the Democratic party. But neither party has a monopoly on political wisdom. And there is room for a viable third party.
To make a third party possible is Pat Buchanan's real crime - not any flirtation with Nazism .
Thursday, October 28, 1999
HAIL PAT ! WE NEED YOU !
That super-rich phony Donald Trump wants to be president of the U.S. so he can better protect the interests -now supra-national- of the super rich who -like good old fashioned communists - dismiss all varities of PATRIOTISM as hopelessly parochial.
No wonder Pat - whom I cannot quite support but do admire- now recognizes the need for a third part which will at least give a voice to blue collar America- which has as much right to be angry and rebellious as our politically correct victims.
Trump lies about Populist Pat: " He's a Hitler lover, I guess he's an anti-Semite. He doesn't like the blacks, he doesn't like the gays."( Projo, page A7- Oct. 26 )
Trump has no more right to GUESS that Buchanan is a Nazi than I have to GUESS that Trump is a wife beater or a child molester. Just the facts please !
It is a FACT that Hitler gained power by understanding the soul of Germany in the hellish 1920s. Does Pat Buchanan have a profound insight into the American soul at the millennium ?
Only moralizing charlatans profess to like everybody. Do we like people just because they are Jews or blacks or latinos or gay ? No, we like INDIVIDUALS for our own idiosyncratic reasons. It helps, of course,if THEY like US !
A greedy international capitalist never saw a race or human type that he did not like to exploit or bamboozle.
HAIL PAT ! WE NEED YOU !
No wonder Pat - whom I cannot quite support but do admire- now recognizes the need for a third part which will at least give a voice to blue collar America- which has as much right to be angry and rebellious as our politically correct victims.
Trump lies about Populist Pat: " He's a Hitler lover, I guess he's an anti-Semite. He doesn't like the blacks, he doesn't like the gays."( Projo, page A7- Oct. 26 )
Trump has no more right to GUESS that Buchanan is a Nazi than I have to GUESS that Trump is a wife beater or a child molester. Just the facts please !
It is a FACT that Hitler gained power by understanding the soul of Germany in the hellish 1920s. Does Pat Buchanan have a profound insight into the American soul at the millennium ?
Only moralizing charlatans profess to like everybody. Do we like people just because they are Jews or blacks or latinos or gay ? No, we like INDIVIDUALS for our own idiosyncratic reasons. It helps, of course,if THEY like US !
A greedy international capitalist never saw a race or human type that he did not like to exploit or bamboozle.
HAIL PAT ! WE NEED YOU !
Monday, October 25, 1999
$200 -a big deal for a bureaucracy!
Bob, I just read your column. Of course,it makes great sense to help poor people help themselves. Who will hire you for a job if you just look like you need one ?
A paltry $200 would help the job seeker to at least look presentable. The desperate look is decidedly unattractive in the job market.
It would be wiser to spend that $200 -if granted - in the numerous second hand clothes shops - than buy 4 items at Ann & Hope or the K-Mart - CHEAP places !
An enormous bureaucratic expense is the assumption that most poor people are dishonest. Hence the mountains of paper work and the humiliating interrogation -the long delay - before the so called welfare state will give the poor guy or gal a nickel !
It would be saner to just loan ANY job seeker a paltry sum of money - which can be paid back in the near future. A valid ID - even an expired drivers license - should suffice for the necessary paper work.
Perhaps we need less supercilious bureaucrats and more COMMON SENSE in government.
POVERTY -more than RACE or SEX or SEXUAL ORIENTATION - will make you a second class citizen.
POVERTY is equal opportunity humiliation ! It says that black, white , yellow , gay or straight - you are mierda !
A paltry $200 would help the job seeker to at least look presentable. The desperate look is decidedly unattractive in the job market.
It would be wiser to spend that $200 -if granted - in the numerous second hand clothes shops - than buy 4 items at Ann & Hope or the K-Mart - CHEAP places !
An enormous bureaucratic expense is the assumption that most poor people are dishonest. Hence the mountains of paper work and the humiliating interrogation -the long delay - before the so called welfare state will give the poor guy or gal a nickel !
It would be saner to just loan ANY job seeker a paltry sum of money - which can be paid back in the near future. A valid ID - even an expired drivers license - should suffice for the necessary paper work.
Perhaps we need less supercilious bureaucrats and more COMMON SENSE in government.
POVERTY -more than RACE or SEX or SEXUAL ORIENTATION - will make you a second class citizen.
POVERTY is equal opportunity humiliation ! It says that black, white , yellow , gay or straight - you are mierda !
Sunday, October 24, 1999
Babies aren't "miracles " anymore !
Happy as a pig in manure, Larry King of TV fame is a father again at age 65. His wife,Shawn, is 38- a little " tired " for the baby making years. We read in the paper that Larry is " reinventing manhood ". Here we can be sure that money and ego is a bigger factor than MACHO in procreating the race.
I'm convinced that fatherhood changes a man as profoundly as motherhood changes a woman - but alas - too often for the worse: It makes him more possessive. more greedy, more aggressive, more full of himself egotistical - and more boorish. Happy fatherhood ! In a world that has just passed the 6 billion mark !
The reckless reproduction of the human race is itself a crime against humanity. How can human dignity be preserved in an over-crowded, ecologically devastated world ?
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby was just plain NUTS to welcome baby 6 billion into the world . " Be fruitful and multiply ! " saith the Lord.
But when will He command us to stop ?
I'm convinced that fatherhood changes a man as profoundly as motherhood changes a woman - but alas - too often for the worse: It makes him more possessive. more greedy, more aggressive, more full of himself egotistical - and more boorish. Happy fatherhood ! In a world that has just passed the 6 billion mark !
The reckless reproduction of the human race is itself a crime against humanity. How can human dignity be preserved in an over-crowded, ecologically devastated world ?
Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby was just plain NUTS to welcome baby 6 billion into the world . " Be fruitful and multiply ! " saith the Lord.
But when will He command us to stop ?
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