Re: MD Partisan Politics, Labels and Distraction (was terrorism)

From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Oct 14 2005 - 18:02:02 BST

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    --- Platt Holden <pholden@sc.rr.com> wrote:

    >
    > > [Arlo]
    > > I use "conservative" and "liberal" when I am in
    > dialogue with Platt. He's
    > > made it clear those are his poles, and he's
    > stickin' to 'em. I tried using
    > > scarequotes with them, to show I was using them in
    > a discordant manner.
    > >
    > > But I think its important to note that its not
    > that I don't "get" a
    > > "leftist" and "rightist" political meter, its the
    > absolute dichotomization
    > > of "All Good" and "All Evil" that these labels,
    > and those that employ them,
    > > bring.
    >
    > Apparently Arlo doesn't see that his anti-dichotomy
    > stance creates an
    > equally severe dichotomy -- those in favor and those
    > against dichotomies.
    > Equally, his condemnation of party lines is itself a
    > party line -- those
    > who like to refer to themselves as independents.
    >

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