http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:43:46 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:43:46 Whenever they call ordinary republicans "pugs" or "repukes"/"repugs"

Whenever they rant and rave against someone for being moderate or indepenent or centrist

Whenever they throw around words like "fascist" as if such words were games

Whenever they oversimplify and create a straw-man to atta... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/21 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:03:01 I.e., you can make a case that some of these folks may have this ideology/intention/plan, or that things are evolving in a Fascist direction somehow or other, BUT the abuse of power at home through such authoritarianism, has not reached typical Fascist-level extremes, when compared to Mussolini and ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/20 Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:16:17 [a href="http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm" target="_blank"]Benito Mussolini: The Doctrine of Fascism (1932)[/a] makes it very clear what Fascist culture is about -- ACTION, the VITAL ORGANISM of the culture, embodied in the STATE.

It is a good thing to read, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/19 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 04:27:20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky

Just another reason why 'idols' and rhetoric, become part of a dangerous game.

Let's just say I have some linguistic theories of my own as to why Chavez is so popular among some, and why Chomsky is so controversial.

Democrats can do bet... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/18 Wed, 07 Jun 2006 00:08:30 http://hrw.org/doc/?t=americas&c=venezu

It seems people wind up in prison for voicing opposition in papers.

Bush has a better record on that than Chavez, go figure, it doesn't work for Democrats to point to Chavez as if he were great, while pointing fingers at Bush.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/17 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 23:40:11 Ok, this was brief, didn't involve pages of posts. What was said? Is this strategy for success at the polls?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/16 Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:19:19 There is some point, isn't there?

I can say 'wrong' can't I? I mean, aside from putting it on a poster for a protest. I can say it in public maybe? As a Democrat, perhaps, or in the course of commenting on people's lack of concern for ethics?

The culture of sadism is wrong, isn't it? Sorry... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/15 Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:27:36 They WILL be alienated by equivocations about morality, but they MAY listen if you raise more of a moral challenge to the lies and torture and lack of responsibility/accountability on the right.

They WILL be turned off by more talk of tolerance and equality, the sort of rhetoric that's EASY to ma... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/14 Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:38:45 Revealing the Republican Party's idiocy, their lack of accountability, hypocrisy, and disregard for human/civil rights, with determination and with moral indignation, can get a message out there, can make a difference.

But establishing Democratic alternatives as more ethical, more morally sound, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/13 Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:17:50 1. By equivocating on whether there are any moral absolutes at all (arguing that even torture and rape are morally relative, thereby undermining a moral critique of Abu Ghraib/Bush Admin)
2. By claiming that your values are tolerance and equality (and forgetting about values like justice, speaking ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/12 Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:13:18 The Bush administration can be seen as the worst of both worlds, politically.

While making moral postures, it is extremely immoral.

It demonstrates the worst potentials of both the right and the left, for all to see.

While is it important to rail against the Bush Administration's authoritar... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/11 Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:19:35 I think it's about time more Democrats stand up, be vocal, and shout out about morality.

Not pretense. Not word games. Not rhetoric. Not formulaic/theoretical reframing... I mean REAL morality.

I.e., if you care about morals, raise your voice against torture, raise your voice against corrup... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/9 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 23:39:23 When will more people who are vocal about human and civil rights, speak in a way that is morally relevant to others?

When discussing a position paper for college, or for a think tank, or for some diplomatic forum, I can understand the need for careful and analytical language that is more technica... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/8 Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:09:22 I believe "Evil" is a very useful term. I think it is meaningful. It is within my own experience. There are a number of horrors that can be experienced personally, or vicariously, that are awful and hideous enough, that involve enough lack of character, depravity, conscienceless, gratuitous suffe... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/5 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:20:43 Military Intelligence encouraged tough treatment of inmates at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. There were allegations that glow sticks and thermometers were broken off in inmates' anuses, on purpose, and that young men who were imprisoned, were threatened with anal rape.

That the right wing ignored su... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/4 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:07:24 Can the Democratic Challenge move beyond either bitching about or Patronizing Moderates/Centrists?

There are two major tendencies I see, neither of which seem all that fruitful. Hostility to any appearance of compromise or admission of any conservative critique or point of view, fails to demonst... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/3 Wed, 31 May 2006 04:05:43 How can the various movements that are part of the Democratic Party, contribute and add vibrant and diverse views, and strengthen the party by making it deal with practical concerns that effect everyone in a way that does not treat others unfairly, in a way that does not neglect the injustices that ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/2 Tue, 30 May 2006 18:45:18 [a href="http://againstarchons.blogspot.com/2006/05/archons-of-rhetoric.html" target="_blank"]Rhetoric[/a] roils continually through the blogosphere, through airwaves, through the presses, riling people to reaction. This ideally suits Reactionaries, but how does it suit others?

Though the Red-st... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/carl_pwccaman/1 Tue, 30 May 2006 01:59:56