Comments on: Playing Against Type http://betterangels.wordpress.com/2004/12/17/playing-against-type/ ad astra, per aspera Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:29:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Moral Tension http://betterangels.wordpress.com/2004/12/17/playing-against-type/#comment-397 Moral Tension Sat, 22 Jan 2005 20:06:27 +0000 http://betterangels.wordpress.com/2004/12/17/playing-against-type/#comment-397 I'd really like to know what April and others think of this paper on<a href="http://academic.evergreen.edu/Curricular/iescriticalthinking/downloads/lahti-weinsteinEHB.pdf" rel="nofollow">the evolution of morality</a>. The connection to Better Angles will be obvious. I think it "predicts" many of the most amazing features of the current administration. And while we are at it, let me say that the recent electoral debacle suggests that we should talk about politics more rather than less. Bret I’d really like to know what April and others think of this paper onthe evolution of morality. The connection to Better Angles will be obvious. I think it “predicts” many of the most amazing features of the current administration.

And while we are at it, let me say that the recent electoral debacle suggests that we should talk about politics more rather than less.

Bret

]]> By: The Mouse that Roared http://betterangels.wordpress.com/2004/12/17/playing-against-type/#comment-396 The Mouse that Roared Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:40:16 +0000 http://betterangels.wordpress.com/2004/12/17/playing-against-type/#comment-396 Champions AGAINST big government? LOL. They've got a big government right now. Fiscal responsibility? Hah! An out-of-control deficit does not constitute fiscal responsibility. Saddling future generations with debt (as the borrow-and-spend GOP does) is not fiscal responsibility. There are so many ways that the GOP betrays its own principles that we'd be stupid not to call them on it. Champions AGAINST big government? LOL. They’ve got a big government right now. Fiscal responsibility? Hah! An out-of-control deficit does not constitute fiscal responsibility. Saddling future generations with debt (as the borrow-and-spend GOP does) is not fiscal responsibility.

There are so many ways that the GOP betrays its own principles that we’d be stupid not to call them on it.

]]> By: kief http://betterangels.wordpress.com/2004/12/17/playing-against-type/#comment-395 kief Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:13:05 +0000 http://betterangels.wordpress.com/2004/12/17/playing-against-type/#comment-395 The problem I have with this idea is that it predates Nixon. This is the strategy that resulted in Democratic administrations taking us into Vietnam and then escalating the conflict there. During the Cold War, Democrats fearful of the label "soft on Communism" tried to out-hawk the Republicans to compensate. I'm sure Republicans would love it if Democrats allow them to drive Democratic strategy by accusing them of being "Soft on Terrorism". Personally, I would prefer to see the Democrats (or anybody credible) go after the Republicans on real American, democratic values. To me, their vulnerability is their waving of the flag of democracty while making civil rights a dirty word. Here again they've been driving the agenda by making "card carrying member of the ACLU" a perjurative, while somehow positioning themselves as champions against "big government". There are lots of hypocracies here to exploit against the Republicans. The problem I have with this idea is that it predates Nixon. This is the strategy that resulted in Democratic administrations taking us into Vietnam and then escalating the conflict there. During the Cold War, Democrats fearful of the label “soft on Communism” tried to out-hawk the Republicans to compensate.

I’m sure Republicans would love it if Democrats allow them to drive Democratic strategy by accusing them of being “Soft on Terrorism”.

Personally, I would prefer to see the Democrats (or anybody credible) go after the Republicans on real American, democratic values. To me, their vulnerability is their waving of the flag of democracty while making civil rights a dirty word. Here again they’ve been driving the agenda by making “card carrying member of the ACLU” a perjurative, while somehow positioning themselves as champions against “big government”. There are lots of hypocracies here to exploit against the Republicans.

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