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In reply to the discussion: Wonkette: Oh go fuck yourself, Glenn Greenwald [View all]haele
(12,650 posts)There's a big problem with people like Greenwald who live to "expose hypocrisy" and "tear down/cut out the rot" - especially when they're intelligent or are part of the "intelligentsia" when it comes to social and political discourse.
They tend to be Manichean; and love to blindly use the meat cleavers while proving their philosophy, their morals, their ethics are the right ones.
They never pay attention to the majority of average people who are just trying to survive and might be slow to change a political, social, or economic system they're familiar with. The "Dragon Slayers" have already decided anyone who says "well, wait a minute, let's look at the entire situation and see what will make a positive difference for everyone in the long run..." is against them and is part of the corrupt system.
I've read Greenwald's books until he got to the point I started channeling my inner Dorothy Parker. He's no Stieglitz or Chomsky, and never was in a political sense. He writes better than Ayn Rand, but they're not that much different at heart. Even when he was the "Liberal Darling" during the Bush Era, he was still writing more Anti-American Society screed than Anti-Bush screed.
Back during the Bush years, he wanted his version new, improved Strong Man/Hero of the Peoples in charge, not the GOP Business interests. He was always pointing out the "stupidity" or "complacency" of the electorate - that means you and me who vote for whatever our own ethics and interests drive us to vote.
Ultimately, Greenwald has shown he's a Leninist, like Bannon. Tear it all down, start over, - he's just "kinder and gentler" because he "cares" about the little guys and the downtrodden masses - but in reality, he's really just another Authoritarian who wants to tell other people the best way to live rather than deal the messy real world that most of us have to live in.
No Diplomacy, No "Consideration", and certainly no reconsideration. He's so smart he's never wrong, and you're a corrupt enabler for even suggesting he's not thinking things through...
Haele