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Nov. 16th, 2010
Silencing the American Left
Nov. 16th, 2010 08:42 pm“It is unfortunate that there is no political party in the United States to run against Goldman Sachs. I am in favor of elections, but there is no way I can vote against Goldman Sachs.”
-- Chandler Davis
Funny that we don't hear more of this sentiment from the so-called populist uprising of our Tea Partiers. Of course, that is part of Mr. Davis's larger theme, the silencing of lefty ideas. He, himself, did time in prison for not cooperating with the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had been associated with communism. He argues that the repression of the McCarthy era shut down that side of the debate in American politics, hence skewing the way we think and talk about politics and about what is possible. Although ideas that far on the left do seem to have always been well outside the American mainstream, I can buy into the idea that our fearless leaders may have been overly reactive.
-- Chandler Davis
Funny that we don't hear more of this sentiment from the so-called populist uprising of our Tea Partiers. Of course, that is part of Mr. Davis's larger theme, the silencing of lefty ideas. He, himself, did time in prison for not cooperating with the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had been associated with communism. He argues that the repression of the McCarthy era shut down that side of the debate in American politics, hence skewing the way we think and talk about politics and about what is possible. Although ideas that far on the left do seem to have always been well outside the American mainstream, I can buy into the idea that our fearless leaders may have been overly reactive.
Silencing the American Left
Nov. 16th, 2010 08:42 pm“It is unfortunate that there is no political party in the United States to run against Goldman Sachs. I am in favor of elections, but there is no way I can vote against Goldman Sachs.”
-- Chandler Davis
Funny that we don't hear more of this sentiment from the so-called populist uprising of our Tea Partiers. Of course, that is part of Mr. Davis's larger theme, the silencing of lefty ideas. He, himself, did time in prison for not cooperating with the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had been associated with communism. He argues that the repression of the McCarthy era shut down that side of the debate in American politics, hence skewing the way we think and talk about politics and about what is possible. Although ideas that far on the left do seem to have always been well outside the American mainstream, I can buy into the idea that our fearless leaders may have been overly reactive.
-- Chandler Davis
Funny that we don't hear more of this sentiment from the so-called populist uprising of our Tea Partiers. Of course, that is part of Mr. Davis's larger theme, the silencing of lefty ideas. He, himself, did time in prison for not cooperating with the House Un-American Activities Committee, and had been associated with communism. He argues that the repression of the McCarthy era shut down that side of the debate in American politics, hence skewing the way we think and talk about politics and about what is possible. Although ideas that far on the left do seem to have always been well outside the American mainstream, I can buy into the idea that our fearless leaders may have been overly reactive.