| Monday, April 5, 2004 |
17:46 - And if we punched these people, we would go to prison
http://www.command-post.org/oped/2_archives/011319.html
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After reading this article, via Dean Esmay, I had to go stand by the window. And just stare into the distance for a while.
People treat Communism these days, and its symbols and dramatis personae, like some kind of silly and cute curiosity-- a harmless, starry-eyed, idealistic little notion with cool constructivist iconography that inexplicably got America's reactionaries all comically flustered back in the 50s. (Why, it even triggered our very own purges and show trials and banishments to the gulags that we undoubtedly had somewhere in Montana.) It was just a well-intentioned, if misguided, conceit of the young and overeducated, and certainly it couldn't ever have done any real damage here.
People, in other words, love to kid themselves.
And it makes me feel genuinely ill.
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Brian Tiemann
