From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 10:55:26 MDT
In a message dated 5/16/2003 10:37:16 AM Central Standard Time,
mwiik@messagenet.com writes: While I'm sure (assuming you vote republican)
that they appreciate your vote and your canvassing work, there's suggestions
they couldn't care less about your 'influence' on their 'policy'. Consider:
Mike,
How could you ever be wrong? Let me count the ways. I have a Masters
Degree from the University of Chicago but I have never heard of Leo Strauss.
I am not a conservative, I am a radical. I don't want to stand still
or move backwards, my ambition is to move our country ahead.
I love listening to Rush Limbaugh. He was raised only thirty or forty
miles from where I was. I don't listen to him because I agree with him, I
don't agree, but because he is a better speaker than his opposition on the
dial. Rush is a true conservative although a nice guy personally, I am a
radical, do you understand now?
Now don't you know that a guy (me) that reads Al Jazeera also reads
plenty of the right wing stuff also. Neo Conservative is a term they never
use. The people you discuss are people they don't even know. Neo
Conservative seems to be a straw man erected by various left wing groups for
their own propaganda purposes -- nothing more. The right wing never heard of
it except from the babbling left.
You also wrote, "He [Leo Strauss] also argued that Platonic truth is
too hard for people to bear, and that the classical appeal to "virtue" as the
object of human endeavor is unattainable. Hence it has been necessary to tell
lies to people about the nature of political reality. ***An elite recognizes
the truth, however, and keeps it to itself. This gives it insight, and
implicitly power that others do not possess. This obviously is an important
element in Strauss's appeal to America's neoconservatives.***"
That is straight out of the Marx-Lenin playbook. I guess after 150
years most people will have forgotten it and you can pass it off as something
new.
Ron h.
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