"MoveOn" to 5GW?

[JeffC]

[QUOTE=SteveMetz;36795]

YMMV?? This is like trying to watch my teenage daughters text message.

YMMV = "Your Milleage May Vary"

[zenpundit]

Hi Jeff

Well-focused blog on your part. Nice.

Aesthetic opinions are usually a matter of taste and I'll leave it to that.

[zenpundit]

Coffee would be good; You mentioned that you were north of me - near or far ?

[selil]

Coffee would be good; You mentioned that you were north of me - near or far ?

I'm at Purdue Calumet in Hammond, Live about 20 miles east.

[MattC86]

Hammond? I drive past that dump - er, town - every year on my way between Ithaca and Chicago. My profound sympathies.

As far as this post, I'll tread as lightly as I can because I know I'm a pretty liberal guy wandering through a forest of traditional conservatives/Republicans - and if you can't stand bad metaphors and rhetoric, you should probably stop reading now - but I just want to say this idea of MoveOn somehow trying to overthrow traditional values or practicing subversion of any kind is really kind of painful to read.

MoveOn may be extreme in their techniques (the Petraeus ad obviously was a pretty low point) but agenda-wise, it's difficult to consider them radical when they were clamoring for the end of a war that, just a few short months ago, was strongly opposed by 50% or more of the country. Their social and economic agenda, while liberal, is hardly "socialist" and anything smacking of a "leftist" conspiracy is so unbelievably outrageous that I have a hard time believing you're serious. Especially considering that liberals in the US are not nearly as liberal as left parties in European states and Canada, let alone anything approaching "Stalinism."

And yes, there are plenty of far-left campus radicals. But the people I interact with more on my campus - I know, poor choice of friends - are more likely to be near-racist anti-Muslims who support this war and any war, while being conspicuously unwilling to fight in it (or even pay higher taxes for it.)

Extremism is in the eye of the beholder, and it definitely goes both ways.

I am sorry if that seems to be personal in any way, I'm done with this whole thing - no arguments from me. I just felt something was missing here that needed to be said.

Thanks,

Matt