Monday, January 17, 2011

The Establishment

I remember when the Left railed against "The Establishment" in vigorous, and somtimes violent, ways. Shannon Love:
Why is the left hypocritically pushing so hard for “civility” in our political discourse? Why did they try to use the Tuscon shootings to suppress the passionate expression of non-leftists?

I think the answer is simple: Passionate, sometimes even inflammatory, expression is the tool of the revolutionary not the establishment and today, leftists are the establishment.
Plus this interesting observation:
We live today in a looking-glass world in which those who call themselves “progressives” fight for the past and established policies while those who call themselves “conservatives” fight for the future and innovation.
Read the whole thing.

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