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In reply to the discussion: Bruce Bartlett, former Reagan economic policy advisor: "one of our political parties is insane" [View all]coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)62. Story is that, running up to Nov. 1968, Kissinger, seeking approval from
his buddies at Harvard and with Nelson Rockefeller's campaign, would bad-mouth Nixon in quasi-absolutist terms as 'ruinous for the country.' Then, when Kissinger sought favor from Nixon and his Junta, he would turn around and bad-mouth the Eastern liberal establishment (code for "Jews" or, at least, silently assent while Nixon did so.
Bartlett strikes me as cut from the same coat of mealy-mouthed two-facedness as Kissinger. Around his educated friends, he finds it fashionable to bash the Yahoos. But put him with those Yahoos and he will soon become indistinguishable from them.
Still, I dig what you're saying.
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Bruce Bartlett, former Reagan economic policy advisor: "one of our political parties is insane" [View all]
UnrepentantLiberal
Jul 2012
OP
Thanks for sharing with us what anarchism is. Every time I see that term misused on DU I try to
Puregonzo1188
Jul 2012
#70
No, they are corporatists in the traditional meaning of the word. They want chaos,
freshwest
Jul 2012
#42
I think that's a good deal of what we've done, is not look at it. We exclaim how stupid or crazy
freshwest
Jul 2012
#67
Agreed. Bartlett is right about the insane part, but wrong about ending government.
progressoid
Jul 2012
#39
Anarchism, the philosophy, is demonstrably nothing what the Republicans want.
Fantastic Anarchist
Jul 2012
#20
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Ronald Reagan could never get elected
justiceischeap
Jul 2012
#14
Ironically Raygun is responsible for starting the insanity of that party, it began with him. nt
Raine
Jul 2012
#23
Story is that, running up to Nov. 1968, Kissinger, seeking approval from
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#62
Clearly Bartlett doesn't know enough about anarchy to use the word correctly. That SAID..
annabanana
Jul 2012
#53